Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that some toxic reaction occurred in 29.8% of sulfapyridine cases, 11.8% of sulfathiazole and 7.7% of sulfadiazine. Most of these reactions are not dangerous, merely a nuisance (e.g., nausea, vomiting, dizziness, mild anemia, lack of appetite, tingling sensation), and do not interrupt treatment. But some rare reactions may prove fatal unless caught early. Even the less toxic sulfa derivatives can cause trouble: three cases at Johns Hopkins Hospital suffered not only kidney damage but brain injury from sulfathiazole; two majors in the Army Medical Corps last winter stated that seven out of 38 patients had kidney complications after sulfadiazine. Some...
...York City's mortality records: if the pre-sulfa mortality rate had prevailed, 10,341 New Yorkers would have died from 1936 to 1941, of 14 diseases now treated with sulfa drugs. Actually only 4,475 died. For every 685 pneumonia deaths there was only one fatal sulfa reaction-a risk doctors and citizens agree is well worth taking...
...Germany the leader of the West, "the leader ultimately of a German-Russian-Japanese coalition against the Atlantic world." Working with President Wilson, "I did not have the sense to see that the acquisition of the German islands in the Pacific north of the equator by Japan was a fatal blow to our defenses in the Pacific...
...insurance company found that fatal accidents in U.S. homes have increased (The National Safety Council reported last month that while U.S. armed forces have lost 12,123 dead since Pearl Harbor, on the home front accidental losses totaled 128,000, of which 64,000 were factory workers on their jobs...
...errors and ineptitudes had been fatal, the Conservative Party would have died in 1939 and 1940. But the Tories survived and thrived. Early in 1942, when Socialist Sir Stafford Cripps emerged as the white hope of a new deal, the Tories took him into the Government and then swallowed him up. Now Sir Stafford was useful to them. Last week, as Minister of Aircraft Production, he took the slings and arrows for the Government's seizure of inefficient Short Brothers, Ltd. (Sunderland flying boats, Stirling bombers...