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Even a single antibiotic can produce harmful (sometimes fatal) results if the doctor using it is not extremely alert. This was the case with Chloromycetin. The surest cure for typhoid fever, and one of the best drugs for Rocky Mountain spotted fever, brucellosis (undulant fever), typhus and some kinds of pneumonia, it had been given to about 8,000,000 patients since it was first marketed in 1949. Then it was found (TIME, July 14) that some patients who had been getting the drug had died of aplastic anemia (in which the bone marrow is unable to do its normal...
...staying at hotels, sometimes camping, as the hour or mood caught them. Wrote Elizabeth in her diary on July 29: "Papa is not content. He says it is too cold to camp. Mama and I teamed against him. We won." Because Elizabeth wanted to see a bullfight, on the fatal night, the Drummonds had doubled back towards Digne, where they remembered having seen one advertised, and on the way back camped beside the road...
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...
That was his fatal error. For among the dirty deals that Hilaly was tracking down was the Palestine arms scandal...
...deeply committed, by her treaty with France and by her official actions . . . The illustrious father of Mr. Churchill has admitted that Great Britain was deeply involved and that "it must be recorded with regret that the British Government not only acquiesced but encouraged the French Government in a fatal course" (Churchill, The Gathering Storm...