Word: streptococcus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Science, speaking in its usual language of paradox, has spent most of the last century revealing terror in the tiny things of life. The germ theory of disease probably drove to the grave a lot of genteel old ladies ignored by the streptococcus. By the time mankind grew accustomed to bacillae, American physicists sent some explosive atoms to Hiroshima, giving the world a new source of frenzy. With his new Atoms for Peace, David O. Woodbury has at last sought out the scientists who are working with peaceable, tractable atoms, making significant discoveries that have largely escaped journalistic attention...
Sulfas. By the time the vitamin frontier was thickly settled, another frontier was being opened. In 1935 the French broke the secret of a new German drug and published it: a simple substance derived from coal tar would kill the streptococcus germs that often caused fatal infections. The drug was Prontosil; from it came sulfanilamide, first of the modern "wonder drugs" and first of a long line of sulfas. Other companies were the first to find high-powered, patentable variants like sulfamerazine, sulfadiazine, sulfathiazole and sulfaguanidine. Merck chemists got what looked like a dud: sul-faquinoxaline. Never proved safe...
Over the last 15 years, researchers from New York University have filtered two chemicals from cultures of streptococcus germs. These enzymes-streptokinase and streptodornase-also clean out waste matter from wounds and infections, say four Johns Hopkins doctors in the current A.M.A. Journal. In tests on 85 patients with ailments varying from bedsores to osteomyelitis, the Johns Hopkins doctors found that streptokinase worked effectively to dissolve the tough fibrous matter in blood clots, while streptodornase did its work on dead cells and pus. In no case did either chemical harm the living cells...
HEMINGWAY was ill with erysipelas, streptococcus, staphylococcus and anthrax infections in Cortina d'Ampezzo and in hospital in Padova. English spelling Padua. Received 13 million units of penicillin and 3,000,000 more later in Cortina...
Rheumatic fever seems to follow a streptococcus infection of the nose and upper throat. Doctors have long been aware of this fact without knowing why. Last week, Dr. Charles H. Rammelkamp announced in Cheyenne that he and a team of researchers had found out. They may thus have found out how to prevent most rheumatic fever cases...