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...champion in the ring with his opponent, and the 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...
...last week's Lancet, Captain Wilson explained her amazing survival: on opening the wound - it ran from her left side a little above the waist to a spot near her navel - he found that the shilling-sized hole nicked out of her intestine had be come fixed against the corresponding hole in her abdominal wall, so that no contaminating material could touch the vulnerable abdominal lining. Such material trickled out through the wound, where it could do comparatively little harm. Wrote the Captain admiringly: "In her successful management of this case, Nature endorses the principles at present advocated...
Last fortnight 69-year-old Dr. Rosenow got in two good licks: he reviewed the whole subject in the Lancet and in the International Bulletin, which broke a precedent by devoting a whole issue to his article. He reiterated his big discovery (1942) that he can make streptococcus change into a virus, and vice versa. His photographs of slides show the streptococcus in graduated sizes, some so small that the next size is presumably invisible. He says his converted virus causes poliomyelitis (and sometimes encephalitis). If verified, these findings will be big news, since Dr. Rosenow's streptococcus lends...
According to evidence in last week's Lancet, the new drug vivicillin (TIME, May 22) is not a good substitute for penicillin. The evidence (from a British military hospital): twelve cases of leg ulcers, carbuncles, boils, colitis, bacterial endocarditis, gonorrhea, septicemia which vivicillin failed to cure...
During two years of fighting in the Middle East, Major Peter Byers Ascroft, a surgeon with the Eighth Army, and his Scottish surgical unit handled 516 head-wound cases. Last summer Major Ascroft summarized the clinical results of this experience in the British medical journal, The Lancet. Last week the New England Journal of Medicine declared Major Ascroft's article required reading for every U.S. military and civilian surgeon. Reasons: 1) "the conclusions differ so fundamentally from those previously authorized for publication by the [U.S.] War Department, which were largely reached shortly after World War I"; 2) the article...