Word: maclachlan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than and just as effective as sulfanilamide and sulfapyridine, but much safer. No kin to the older drugs, tongue-tripping hydroxy-ethylapocupreine is derived from quinine, is usually swallowed in gelatin capsules. Of 500 pneumonia patients treated at Pittsburgh's Mercy Hospital, said Chief Physician William Watt Graham MacLachlan, less than 23% died. Usual Pittsburgh pneumonia-case death rate: 45%. Before advising other physicians to lay in a winter's supply of hydroxyethylapocupreine, the cautious investigators, remembering the unqualified praise which greeted sulfanilamide, are waiting for further confirmation of the drug's efficacy...
...research completed just in time for cheering at the dedicatory exercises last week was a new derivative of quinine which relieves pneumonia. While Mr. Mellon listened attentively, Dr. William Watt Graham MacLachlan, physician-in-chief of Pittsburgh's Mercy Hospital where the stuff was given to patients last year, reported that the use of hydroxy-ethyl-apocupreine cut his pneumonia death rate in half. Only 27% of his patients died as compared with the 45% Pittsburgh mortality rate. It is given like quinine in capsules by mouth...
...Cambridge, philosophy and history; Charles Farwell Edwon, Jr. of Cambridge, history; Paul Elisworth Everett, Jr. 3G of Wellesley, remance languages and literature; Paul Malcolm Heffenan 2S.A. of Ames, Iowa, architecture; Alan Holske 3G of Pleasantville, New York, German; Julius Knause Knipp 4G of Urbana, Illinois, physics; John Douglas MacLachlan 4G of Burritt's Rapids, Ontario, Canada, biology; Charles Habib Malik 3G of Heliopolis, Egypt, philosophy; Harrg August Rositzke 4G of Brooklyn, New York English...