Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hoagland already owns a drug store and a restaurant, so he was able to turn full attention to the problem of afternoon seating for his wife, six children and--University Hall officials are really generous--his three grandchildren...
...bookworm (he often has to look up the spelling of medical trade terms) and not much of a laboratory researcher. Dr. Johansen never gave up hope that somebody, somewhere, would find a drug to cure leprosy. He worked conscientiously with the sulfas. Then, at the end of World War II, came the sulfones, such as Diasone, Promacetin and sulphetrorie...
...Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Drs. Howard S. Traisman and L. Martin Hardy reported to the Illinois State Medical Society, 55 of the children got only the old-fashioned treatment; 37 got a sulfa drug in addition, and similar groups received one of two antibiotics. Children in the standard-treatment group got well faster than the others; when they had complications (such as ear infections and pneumonia), these showed up sooner and were cleared up earlier with the proper drugs...
...only important bacteria that have shown significant resistance, Sir Alexander insisted, are the staphylococci (which cause boils and wound infections), and he denied that these have become resistant after exposure to the drug. These strains were resistant all along, he argued, but made up only 2-3% of the staphylococci; now they are involved in 50% of cases treated in hospitals and 10% of those treated outside-but only because penicillin has killed off the other strains...
When it was first tested, the newest TB "wonder" drug, isoniazid (TIME, March 3, 1952), seemed just what the doctor ordered. But cautious physicians withheld their verdict; too many promising drugs had already turned into disappointing failures. As reports on isoniazid piled up, doctors began to suspect trouble. They observed that some strains of tubercle bacilli quickly learned to live with the drug, and they worried lest the new bacilli lead to varieties of TB that might be harder than ever to cure...