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Show SoilTermedGreatLaboratory For Production of New Druas do more than provide fertility to the soil. In their struggle for existence many of them throw off waste products prod-ucts and create chemical sub-! stances which are deadly to diseau i germs. Thus a very special strai Z T,C1C! fungi -vieldcd Penicil Soil not only is the source of life-supporting life-supporting food but also is a great laboratory in which are produced many new-found drugs for curing diseases of man and beast against which even good nutrition cannot prevail, according to Alden Stahr and Dr. Boyd Woodruff in an article arti-cle in Capper's Farmer. "These are the so-called miracle drugs, first of which was tyrothric-in," tyrothric-in," says the article. "Then came penicillin, used extensively during the war. followed by actoinomyein, streptothricin, clavicin and guma-gicin. guma-gicin. Others have been discovered and more are in prospect." Among the things scientists have seen and identified. Stahr and Woodruff Wood-ruff point out, are: One-celled plants, molds, green plants, animals, ani-mals, protozoa, worms and nematodes. nema-todes. And these soil inhabitants Un. which shared the credit with blood plasma and the sulfa drug, in greatly reducing the wound mor-tahty mor-tahty rate in World War II compared with the First World war The ioil conclude the writers is so complex a mixture that there must be many other healing age nt found m ,t Many of manS peases .till are unconquered -d, weakening the System p" ! way tor more serious ailment.? |