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...most rewarding medical advances of the 1950s was the finding that heart damage from rheumatic fever could usually be averted if repeated attacks of strep throat were prevented by long-term use of penicillin. A particular type of streptococcus sets up a reaction that attacks the heart's muscle and especially its valves. That, said Tulane University's Dr. George Burch, seems to be only part of the story. Viruses, a thousand times smaller than strep bacilli, are also involved, and in heart disease they may be more important. Burch had been puzzled because many patients with damaged...
...Greek police had gone to extraordinary lengths to try to avoid arresting Lady Amalia Fleming. She is, after all, the widow of Britain's Sir Alexander Fleming, who won the 1945 Nobel Prize for his discovery of penicillin. Because of his marriage to Greek-born Amalia, the achievement is particularly honored in Greece, where nearly every village has a Fleming Street. Lady Fleming, 62, is a noted bacteriologist in her own right and a World War II heroine of the Greek resistance. Thus when the police were tipped off that she was involved in a plot to spring their...
Like all teachers, he has some problem students, but he blames himself for the collection of scars on his hands and arms. "Once I had a sick tiger," he recalls, "and crawled into his cage to push him over so the doctor could give him a shot of penicillin. He wasn't as sick as I thought. When I rolled him over, he bit my hand. I had to punch him in the nose to make him let go. I went to the hospital instead...
Died. Dr. Barry Wood, 60, onetime grid star and noted bacteriologist; of a heart attack; in Boston. Wood was one of the first to publish a paper on penicillin. Later he led in research on the mechanism by which white blood cells fight invading organisms. Wood was named vice president of Johns Hopkins University and hospital in 1955, heading its department of microbiology from 1959 until his death. He was to have received the Kober award, the Association of American Physicians' highest tribute...
Died. Dr. Paul de Kruif, 80, bacteriologist and author of laymen-oriented medical books: of a heart attack: in Holland, Mich. Holder of a Ph.D. in microbiology but no medical degree, De Kruif developed an antitoxin for gas gangrene, helped produce a successful treatment for syphilis before penicillin was used. He wrote 13 books, among them the bestsellers Hunger Fighters and Microbe Hunters. He also collaborated with Sinclair Lewis on Arrowsmith, which dealt with a onetime country doctor. Answering whispers that he had ghosted the book for Lewis, De Kruif said: "This is wrong. But Lewis would have been completely...