Word: bloodstreams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Malaria's cause is known: a tiny animalcule injected by a mosquito's sting. But no one knows what makes the disease so hard to cure permanently. Parasitologists think it is because the malaria bug knows how to hide: even when the bloodstream has been cleared by an antimalarial drug, the organism may remain in body tissues, lying low for new attacks. If scientists could grow the parasite in a test tube and find out exactly what makes it tick, they would be well along toward wiping out malaria...
Bacteremia (bloodstream infections). Of 91 cases, 61 recovered or improved...
...lacked in San Antonio. He devised many new operations, many new instruments to perform them with. Mortality in operations for removal of the prostate gland was 20% when he began. His record in 3,000 operations: 3%. He was famed for: 1) his part in developing Mercurochrome as a bloodstream disinfectant (now superseded by sulfa drugs and penicillin); 2) a radical operation for cancer of the prostate; 3) a method of removing the prostate through the urinary outlet; 4) operations which made many a pseudohermaphrodite nearly normal sexually; 5) the Young punch, an instrument to cut through bladder obstructions...
...trouble with the wonder drug penicillin is that it stays only a brief hour or so in the bloodstream, is then lost, chiefly in the urine. Two ways of making the precious drug do double-duty were announced last week...
Other important penicillin news: Drs. George H. Robinson and James E. Wallace of Pittsburgh have used crude green penicillium mold (which produces the drug penicillin) in healing stubborn surface wounds. Highly refined penicillin, on which the armed forces have priorities, is necessary for bloodstream injections, but the doctors did not see why surface poultices needed to be so fancy. Their idea was that the living mold might make penicillin right in the wound. They are not sure what actually happens, but the results are good. With mold-inoculated gauze they cured a man with an acute bone infection...