Word: sulfa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Physicians wondered what would happen. Did people generally know what the wonder drug is good for? Only years of hard work in laboratories and clinics will finally determine what sulfa and penicillin will and will not do. But doctors are now reasonably certain that...
...Penicillin, given by injection or by mouth, is effective against pneumococcus pneumonia, streptococcus infections (e.g., childbed fever), pneumococcus and meningococcus meningitis. Penicillin is usually preferred to sulfa drugs in these diseases, since it is more powerful, and less likely than sulfa to cause complications...
Died. Dr. George W. Raiziss, 61, famed Russian-born chemotherapist, director of dermatological research at Philadelphia's Abbott Laboratories; of a heart attack; in Atlantic City. Dr. Raiziss developed Metaphen (one of the most potent antiseptics known), did important early research with the sulfa drugs, recently developed Diasone as a promising cure for tuberculosis (TIME...
...Navy doctor estimated that 15% of them had been so underfed that they would never reach Japan. Another 15% had tuberculosis. The rest were in varying stages of emaciation, suffering from pellagra, beri beri and scurvy. To treat them, the Japs had no plasma or whole blood, no penicillin, sulfa or synthetic vitamins...
Dysentery is caused by intestinal organisms, most of which are spread by flies.Preventive: kill the flies with D.D.T. Treatment: for some types, sulfa drugs and antiserums, for others, ipecac...