Word: sulfas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Penicillin & Sulfa. Joe's mind, however, was on more immediate matters, as he moved through the early morning ground mists from the cemetery to the orchard lot, where he poured the slop into two troughs and heard the chup-chop of the sows' jaws. Glad to get away from the smell of the hoghouse, Joe waded through high grass and weeds to what was once a brooder house. He hefted a two-bushel bag of mixed feed and poured most of it into a trough for his non-purebred calves. Stepping back, he gauged with practiced eye each...
Swinging down from the loft, Joe took a shaker of sulfa powder to the barn's northeast stall and tenderly dusted the mangled ankle flesh of a calf. A few weeks before, the calf had been taken away from its mother, one of Joe's six milk cows. First night away, the weaning calf tried to climb the wall of a barn stall. Next morning Joe found the struggling animal hanging by its right forefoot, caught high in a crack and badly cut. Old Sam Carver, neighbors remember, had hands as gentle...
Then, in the mid-1930s, came the sulfa drugs and a revival of interest in germ-killing chemicals. An Oxford research team composed of Pathologist (now Sir) Howard Florey and Chemist Ernst Chain dug up Fleming's moldy paper and did the tests all over again. By 1941 they got enough penicillin to prolong the lives of two patients. World War II had come to Europe and was threatening the U.S.: men, money and materials were lavished on the perfection and manufacture of penicillin...
...stand, slight, white-haired Fleming made it plain he considered the recordings "just a bunch of hogwash," but had "cooperated" in return for Red favors-"dog meat for a meal or a couple of sulfa pills." He had told his fellow prisoners: "I cannot tell you to resist; it's up to you. Let your conscience be your guide." Personally, he said, he cared only about survival for his men and himself. "I decided," said Colonel Fleming, "that the most futile thing in the world was a dead prisoner...
...overall record of American prisoners in Korea showed that resistance to Red demands was neither futile nor lethal; defiant captives usually fared as well as abject collaborators. Last week the court of eleven officers evidently decided that-in the absence of dire and direct physical duress-dog meat, sulfa pills or any other material benefits were not reason enough for Fleming's conduct. The verdict: guilty of collaboration. The sentence: dishonorable dismissal, with forfeiture of all pay and allowances...