Word: streptococcus
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...puerperal (childbed) fever caused by Streptococcus haemolyticus more than 3,000 U. S. women die every year. Although sulfanilamide has miraculously cured thousands of puerperal infections, physicians have long sought an equally sure preventive, for most survivors of this ravaging fever are left weakened for life, or mutilated by necessary operations...
Among the diseases conquered by sulfanilamide are puerperal sepsis (childbed fever), gonorrhea, meningitis, and streptococcus sore throat. Last week in The Lancet Dr. Sidney Campbell Dyke, consulting pathologist at the Royal Hospital at Wolverhampton, and his assistant, Dr. G. C. K. Reid, reported that tablets of a new sulfanilamide compound, M. & B. 693, short for 2-(para-aminobenzenesulphonamido) pyridine, had brought about a "speedy recovery" in eight cases of lobar pneumonia...
...their conclusions with a mass of laboratory detail gathered over a period of twelve years, they declared that the cause of caries was not candy but certain "fractions" of wheat, corn and oat products, that these ferment in the mouth, and are transformed by a germ-which they christened Streptococcus odontyliticus (tooth dissolver)- into an acid which attacks tooth enamel...
...vaccination, but have achieved few cures. Arthritis has over 65 variations and doctors cannot agree on any one cause. Certain it is that there is an arthritis type: a tired, nervous, constipated individual easily susceptible to colds and infections who may develop a full-fledged arthritis after a streptococcus infection, or a series of slight injuries to some organ...
...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 the disease...