Word: pneumococci
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eight-month-old baby who lay coughing and rattling in his crib. The baby had a bad case of flu, as he could tell for sure when he examined under the microscope slides made 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...
...baby, instead of dying, "showed marked improvement . . . within 24 hours," and in a few days the sulfapyridine conquered flu germs as well as pneumococci. Happy Dr. McLeod passed the glad news on to the U. S. Public Health Service, and Bacteriologist Margaret Pittman set to work in her laboratory to make sure his lucky hit was indeed...
Last week an old man, fighting for breath, was wheeled into Chicago's Mercy Hospital. Five grave doctors hovered over his bed, took samples of his sputum to type the pneumococci that had attacked him, samples of his blood to type him for transfusions. They covered him with an oxygen tent, inoculated him with pneumonia serum, fed him the famed pneumonia specific, sulfapyridine. Mercy Hospital's Patient No. 1939-2468 was a very special case: he was the junior partner of America's most famous medical team-Dr. Charles Horace Mayo. As it does with the greatest...
Contrary to first expectations, sulfapyridine cannot always be used without serums, for some patients vomit the drug immediately and cannot absorb a sufficient amount in their blood streams. And the preliminary typing of pneumococci for their appropriate serums still takes valuable time in pneumonia cases. But Dr. Perrin Hamilton Long of Johns Hopkins, first physician in the U. S. to test sulfanilamide, is already working with Dr. Eli Kennedy Marshall, who has synthesized a sodium salt of sulfapyridine, which will be injected directly into the veins and may make serums unnecessary...
...There are 32 types of pneumococci. Serums exist for all of them...