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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...
...infected persons, but the American Social Hygiene Association regards the laws of only nine of these States as effective.* Among the most thoroughgoing is a New York law which requires physical examinations as well as Wassermann or Kahn tests for syphilis from all prospective brides and grooms. Tests for gonorrhea are not required, since they are not yet reliable or practical enough for large-scale...
Other facts revealed by the Association: 1) Cases of syphilis discovered through various State examinations in the past year were divided equally between men and women; 2) many cases of gonorrhea were detected during the course of required physical examinations; 3) the number of marriages in New York and New Jersey declined sharply after the laws became effective last July. Since August, however, New York marriages have been increasing and marriages in Connecticut, first State to pass a test law, are as frequent as ever...
Sulfanilamide tablets and injections work wonders with gonorrhea, meningitis and various streptococcic diseases. But sulfanilamide combined with other drugs may prove fatal, as Dr. Samuel Evans Massengill, 67-year-old pharmaceutical manufacturer of Bristol, Tenn., discovered last year when his "Elixir of Sulfanilamide" (sulfanilamide dissolved in diethylene glycol) killed over 100 people (TIME, Dec. 20). Kin of the victims promptly started civil suits, to date have collected more than $150,000 damages from S. E. Massengill...
Most heroic of modern therapeutic measures is artificial fever treatment. If a patient with gonorrhea, St. Vitus' dance or atrophic arthritis is willing to lie snugly in a hot box or expose himself to short-wave radiation for periods varying from two to ten hours, sometimes several times a week, while his temperature is pushed up seven or eight degrees, he stands a good chance of recovery. Whether the intense heat kills the germs, or stimulates the body to produce germicidal substances doctors do not know. Only ill effect of intense heat was delirium, now prevented by copious draughts...