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...when he looked at the dishes, Fleming noticed that the bacterial cultures within were dying off. The killer: "mold juice," as he called it, the product of spores that had probably wafted in from a lab downstairs. Fleming determined that the spores were Penicillium notatum and renamed the juice penicillin. However, it was a decade before other scientists took notice of Fleming's work, purified penicillin and turned it into a miracle drug. --By Michael Lemonick
...dextrose)—and four petri dishes: one sample for each foot (for comparative purposes) and two control dishes. After one week’s incubation, the two sample dishes blossomed with colorful fungi—savory reds and yellows of yeasts, lovely whitish blobs of a penicillin species, green spots of trichoderma and delightful traces of aspergillus—but nothing out-of-the-ordinary for an outdoor statue. “These are the kinds of species you might find on the metal railings outside University Hall,” says Gray Professor of Systematic Botany Donald...
...other aspect of law enforcement. But in the past year he has made it his business to master the intricacies of handwriting analysis, envelope technology and the schedule of U.S. mail pickups in and around Princeton, N.J. He can tell you all about cross-contamination, the common misspellings of penicillin and the "pharmaceutical fold" used by chemists for centuries to dispense medicines--and by person or persons unknown to wrap scrawled terror messages around a few billion spores of surprisingly pure anthrax...
DIED. ORVAN W. HESS, 96, pioneering obstetrician and gynecologist; in New Haven, Conn. In 1942 Orvan injected a human patient with penicillin in a last-ditch effort to save her and became the first doctor in clinical practice to use the antibiotic successfully. Fifteen years later, he developed the first fetal-heart monitor. Today versions are used in delivery rooms worldwide...
...Techniques of compounding potions have changed little since the customers wore string ties and bustles, but the products are somewhat different. Patent medicines are less in demand now, and if there are any home remedies in stock, they are dwarfed by a modern refrigerator that holds biological serums and penicillin. Business is strictly ethical, and though students may use the store telephone to schedule a rendez-vous, they know better than to ask for benzedrine...