Word: staphylococcus
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...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...
...simple method the researchers have made vaccines against the colon bacillus, Salmonella enteritidis, Staphylococcus aureus (boils, septicemia, etc.), one type of pneumonia, one streptococcus, St. Louis encephalitis (sleeping sickness) virus, rabies virus. Tests on other germs, and vaccine trials during human epidemics, are yet to come...
...Back in 1928 Alexander Fleming, M.B., B.S., F.R.C.S.,* taught bacteriology at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, University of London. In his small, old-fashioned laboratory, he grew staphylococci in petri plates (flat glass culture dishes). One day he found that mold had spoiled one of his cultures. Staphylococcus grew on only half of the plate. A blue-green mold spotted, but did not cover, the other half...
...send me a little of its precious life-saving medicine so that I may have a fighting chance? I am engaged to marry a fine man now serving in the U.S. Army." But Marie got no penicillin: doctors held that it could not save her because her hemolytic staphylococcus infection had affected the heart...
...cureall, penicillin has so far been uSed to treat only a limited group of infections: staphylococcus aureus (causing bone infections, cellulitis, face carbuncles, certain types of pneumonia), hemolytic streptococcus, gonorrhea...