Circling the grave nimbly the American microbiologist René Dubos isolated the substance tyrothricin and later showed that it was composed of two substances, gramicidin and tyrocidine. ‘The drug is highly toxic!’ he hollered, ‘so one best keep a fair and even distance from it.’ As these were the first antibiotics to be manufactured commercially, they were first tested on strays and the homeless, and a man with no legs and incurable whooping. ‘One must be at peace with penicillin and tongues, lest the worms’ worm and the turnstiles turn’. The man in the hat read about tryocidine in a Reader’s Digest he found in the trash behind the Waymart. Behind the Sears across from the aqueduct he found a rolled up copy of Popular Mechanics. He folded the two into an origami crane and threw them over a refraining wall, the one between the Sears and Waymart. He knew next to nil about Japanese paper-folding, uncooked fish or toxic soaves and unction’s.
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- Stephen Rowntree
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