Show Great Laboratory For Production of New Drum Drua Soil not only is the source of life- life supporting food but also is a great laboratory In which are produced many new-found new drugs for curing diseases of man and beast against which even good nutrition cannot prevail according to Alden and Dr Boyd Woodruff in an article article article arti arti- cle in Cappers Capper's Farmer These are the so-called so miracle drugs first of which was In says the article Then came penicillin used extensively during the war followed by and cum guma- guma a- a Others have been discovered and more are in prospect Among th the things scientists have seen and identified and Woodruff Woodruff Woodruff Wood Wood- ruff point out put are arc One-celled One plants molds green plants ani mals mats protozoa worms and nema- nema And I these soil inhabitants do do more than provide fertility to the soil In their struggle for existence many of them throw off waste products prod and create chemical substances substances sub sub- stances which are deadly to disease germs cerms Thus a very special strain or species of fungi yielded lin tin which shared the credit with blood plasma and the sulfa I drugs in greatly reducing the wound mortality mor more rate in World War II as compared with the First World war The soil conclude the writers is so complex a mixture that tha t there must be many other healing agents found in it Many of mans man's 2 2000 diseases still are unconquered q Most prevalent of all of course is the common cold which causes more economic loss and discomfort to people than any other disease and weakening the I system paves the way for more serf serious OUS ailments |