Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vision, the blue-green penicillium mold began to grow again. The researchers dis covered that the best growing temperature is about 75° F.,that the mold needs plenty of air. At first, Dr. Florey's researchers got only about a gram of reddish-brown powder (the sodium salt of penicillin -penicillin itself is an unstable acid) from 100 liters of the mold liquid. But at last, after heroic chemical cookery, they accumulated enough penicillin to test the drug on living creatures...
...units daily, given gradually by vein or intramuscular injection for about a week, should cure the average case with a systemic infection. Treatment for gonorrhea is usually much shorter; treatment for subacute bacterial endocarditis, much longer. For application to wounds, about 50,000 units in salt solution is used, varying with the size of the wound...
...Salt Lake City last week three women spoke up in defense of the polygamy they had shared. They were members of the heretical Mormon sect recently prosecuted for polygamy (TIME, March 20). In a joint interview, they unanimously (and anonymously) agreed: "Our husbands are more faithful to several wives than most husbands...
...drove the pigs and chickens out of the house, went to work without instruments or medicines. For antiseptic he used salt water. Bandages were washed in a creek, re-used until they fell apart. His instruments: a carpenter's hammer, a hack saw, chisels. ("In fractures we hammered house nails through bones. ... To chip away the bone we used an ordinary chisel...
...mile-long Moffat Tunnel the radio conked out. But otherwise the first two-way FM radio communication link between engine and caboose was a success. It was tested last week on a Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad heavy freight, making a 1,140-mile round trip between Denver and Salt Lake City...