Word: sulfanilamide
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...brand-new compound called sulfaguanidine. This drug cures dysentery, the disease which laid millions of soldiers low in World War I. Last winter, Dr. Eli Kennerly Marshall Jr., of Johns Hopkins, fell ill with dysentery. He decided to try sulfaguanidine, a form of sulfanilamid which remains in the intestines to fight dysentery germs, instead of seeping into the blood stream. Dr. Marshall has already shipped a supply of his drug to the British forces in Egypt...
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