Word: hemophili
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...from the baby's tears and saliva. What he saw was swarms of vicious pneumococci and tiny, rod-shaped, bloodsucking Hemophilus influenzae, most common of the numerous organisms connected with flu. To combat the pneumococci, he gave the baby injections of the remarkable new drug sulfapyridine. Against the Hemophili he had no weapons, for common influenza is still a mystery to medical science...
...experiments. In a typical experiment she divided 25 mice into five groups. Four groups were fed minute amounts of sulfapyridine, varying from one to eight milligrams. The fifth group got no medicine at all. Half an hour after the drug was given, each mouse was inoculated with enough Hemophili to kill him 100 times over. Results: 1) all the unprotected mice died; 2) "no mouse died which received eight milligrams of the drug"; 3) the number of hours the other mice lived "was directly proportional to the amount of drug administered...
...sulfapyridine the flu cure doctors have awaited for 20 years, there is small chance that they will prescribe it as such this winter. For sulfapyridine must be handled as carefully as dynamite. It often gives patients nausea, headaches, "nerves," even delirium. Further, the fact that the drug lays low Hemophili is no guarantee that it will act with equal success against the combined forces of the six or seven other less common organisms which also occur...
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