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...small amounts to the bacterial solutions, dimmed their luminescence. Greater amounts extinguished the glow altogether. (Conclusions: narcotics numb consciousness by affecting enzyme reactions, not-as hitherto suspected-by acting as fat solvents; human consciousness, which these drugs affect, is at least partly a chemical process sustained by enzymes.) The sulfa drugs acted like one group of narcotics on the enzyme, putting activities to sleep. (Conclusion: the sulfa drugs may perform their germicidal miracles by preferentially anesthetizing disease bacteria so that they are easily overpowered by the body's natural defenses.) When most narcotics had stopped bacterial luminescence, compression...
...people have tried sprays or tablets of various sulfa drugs, but they do not seem to give any lasting relief...
...Para-aminobenzoic acid reputedly turns grey hair dark again-but it raises blood pressure and, if sulfa drugs are given, it combats their curative powers. Another vitamin, pyridoxine, turns hair grey-but it is essential for red blood cells and digestion...
...marvelous mold that saves lives when sulfa drugs fail was described in the British Lancet last month by Professor Howard Walter Florey and colleagues of Oxford.+ The healing principle, called penicillin, is extracted from the velvety-green Penicillium notatum, a relative of the cheese mold. Although it does not kill germs, the mold stops the growth of streptococci and staphylococci with a power "as great or greater than that of the most powerful antiseptics known." Once the germs are checked, the body's white blood cells finish them...
...ingredient in penicillin is not known. It is difficult to give by mouth, because it is digested by stomach juices. So far, in cases of blood poisoning, the doctors have dripped as much as 36 oz. a day of very dilute solution into their patients' veins. Unlike the sulfa drugs, the mold is bland, has no poisonous effects. Said the workers: "An improvement in the spirits and appetite of the patient during treatment was remarked on in all the cases...