Word: penicillium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...savory truffle is a fungus, and so is the unsavory trifle that causes athlete's foot. Life-saving penicillin comes from one fungus (Penicillium notatum); from another comes the lichen that is slowly devouring the Parthenon. Yet another yields the drug LSD, which has been used experimentally in the treatment of schizophrenic children and alcoholics. Knowledge of the complex, infinitely various, unbelievably hardy fungus kingdom has multiplied immeasurably in the past century. In this fascinating, ambitious book by Lucy Kavaler, its villains, heroes and hopefuls are fully explained to the nonscientific reader...
...Cheese & Hides. Dr. Clark does not ask the reason for industrial requests, but he can guess that an order for Penicillium camemberti or Penicillium roqueforti came from a person with cheese making on his mind. Aspergillus flavus, which pro duces an enzyme that breaks down pro tein, may be intended for use in dehairing hides, or perhaps to remove the protein that makes beer cloudy when chilled...
...athlete's foot, and jockstrap itch. Last week 300 specialists in fungus infections, convened in Manhattan under auspices of the New York Academy of Sciences, agreed that 1959 had marked a turning point in the history of man and his itches: a new antibiotic, griseofulvin (extracted from a Penicillium species closely related to the source of penicillin), is the best remedy so far discovered for fungus infections that obligingly concentrate on the body's outer surfaces...