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...Just get the champion in the ring with his opponent, and the champ will do the rest. "The task is to get penicillin to the microbes," said Discoverer Sir Alexander Fleming. "You can do it with a simple spray, snuff or lozenges." He predicted penicillin in lipsticks and tooth paste. A Lancet report describes a penicillin spray as "effective" in stubborn staphylococcus skin infections-e.g., multiple boils, pustular acne, impetigo, hair-follicle inflammation...
...wind rose to 54 knots at 11 a.m., and there were gusts of 75 knots. The smaller ships were already catching hell-how much hell we could not tell, for sheets of spray often cut visibility to ten yards, and we could get only an occasional peek at the smaller ships across a dip in the mountainous waves. It was in the first climax of the storm just before noon, that three brave ships capsized and died...
...Malaria is endemic among southern sharecroppers in the U.S. Recently the U.S. Public Health Service tried DDT against malaria-bearing mosquitoes in Arkansas. In a 36-square-mile area of cotton country, it hired high-school boys to spray the walls of nearly all the sharecroppers' shacks. Cost: 74? per house for DDT and labor. Result: a 94% reduction (for at least two months) in the number of mosquitoes in the treated houses. Dr. F. A. Knowles, bacteriologist of the Public Health Service, announced last week that as soon as more DDT is available for civilians, a nationwide spraying...
...Electron microscopes do not let a man "look" at bacteria, nor do they take photographs. They spray electrons through a bacteria sample, making a silhouette picture on a fluorescent screen or photographic plate...
...swells up and turns mahogany afterward. Chief difficulty in fighting bedbugs : housewives hate to admit their presence. Though the common bedbug hurts little except family pride, a relative known as the "kissing bug" transmits Chagas' disease (a deadly parasitic disease originating in Brazil) to human beings. A Lethane spray is the most effective bedbug poison...