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...months with skin abscesses that would not heal despite treatment with the most powerful antibiotics. They were taken to Children's Memorial Hospital in Oklahoma City. There Dr. Riley and colleagues identified the cause of the girls' illness as a strain of Staphylococcus aureus (the commonest germ in wounds and boils) that resists the killing powers of penicillin and many other drugs. Fortunately, the strain was sensitive to the antibiotic vancomycin, and the girls were soon on the mend. But where had they picked up the infection...
...tradition among air-faring folk. Aviator Charles A. Lindbergh spent years (1930-35) helping Dr. Alexis Carrel to perfect a "robot heart," a germ-free pumping device in which entire organs were kept alive outside the body...
...theories about how to be always one up on everyone through such ploys as the Canterbury Block* and Cogg-Willoughby's Anti-Suntan Gambit.† Potter's latest does not reach these heights, but there is highly useful advice on how to make cribside visitors feel like germ carriers, how to write an autobiography though nothing has ever happened in one's life, and how to devastate an author in a book review ("If you don't know what it's all about by Page 12, it is perfectly fair to say that the book...
...most sprightly of the publications was a magazine called Etc., which was started in 1938 and lasted for four years. It first appeared with a brilliant purple and green cover, and glossy pages. It described itself as "your grain of salt, your germ of laughter, your dash of wit." It included light fiction, cartoons, and short poems such as "If you have a chassis
...Irradiated food, treated to kill any germ-producing material in most perishable foods, can be kept in a simple plastic bag, be preserved almost indefinitely without refrigeration; small air-insulated canteens that can keep food hot for 24 hours in subzero weather...