Word: septicemia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Death reported. Norman Bethune, 49, Canadian doctor who successfully developed the handy wartime trick of storing blood in wine molds and milk bottles, using it for emergency transfusions as much as three weeks later; of septicemia contracted while operating; in Wutai-shan, China. Dr. Bethune joined the His-pano-Canadian Blood Transfusion Service during the Spanish Civil War, by his delayed transfusions saved the lives of thousands of wounded Loyalist fighters. His job in China's war, paid for by the Canadian and American Leagues for Peace and Democracy, was surgeon on the medical staff of the Communist Eighth...
...less than two years sulfanilamide has cured thousands of streptococcic infections of various types, including streptococcic septicemia (blood poisoning), streptococcic sore throat, peritonitis, puerperal sepsis (childbed fever), etc. Meningitis, gonorrhea and certain types of pneumonia have also been conquered. So far sulfanilamide has had no remarkable effect on diseases produced by bacteria other than the streptococcus, men-ingococcus, pneumococcus, or gonococcus. ¶ Although there have been only ten fatalities in 4,000 cases,** with "no correlation between these reactions and the dosage," sulfanilamide often produces such unpleasant by-effects as nausea and vomiting, dizziness, rash and fever. These disappear with...
Uses. Sulfanilamide has cured septicemia, erysipelas, meningitis, scarlet fever, otitismedia (earinflammation). It has cured some cases of tonsillitis, peritonitis, osteomyelitis. It has cured gonorrhea in people who have been infected for some time, but "first infections . . respond poorly if at all." It is a good antiseptic against infections of the kidneys and bladder...
Died. William Johnson Harahan, twice president of Chesapeake & Ohio R. R., eight days before his 70th birthday; of septicemia; in Clifton Forge, Va. His father, James Theodore Harahan, onetime president of Illinois Central R. R., was killed in a railroad wreck...
...gonorrhea's simplest treatment is the result of a vast medical centre functioning ideally. Several months ago Johns Hopkins' Dr. Perrin Long heard of London experiments with Prontylin. sped there for first-hand investigation, sped back to Johns Hopkins for experiments on patients suffering from streptococcic septicemia. hurried into print and onto lecture platforms with his reports. Dr. Long and Dr. Eleanor Bliss, who collaborated with him throughout on streptococci, next applied Prontylin to the meningococci which cause spinal menngitis. The meningococcus is a close relative of the gonococcus and Dr. Long, busy with the former, suggested that...