Word: lancet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dowling of George Washington University reported that aureomycin was better than any other antibiotic for treating undulant fever (brucellosis), and that it produced good results against streptococcic and staphylococcic infections, scarlet fever, and a type of pneumonia that doctors sometimes call "primary atypical," sometimes "virus." The British medical journal Lancet has reported that aureomycin "has the widest range of activity of any known antibacterial substance...
...contributor to The Lancet, British medical journal, has thus hymned the Kinsey report...
Britain's Dr. William Samuel Inman, eye surgeon and psychoanalyst, has some ideas on curing warts that might have come right out of the Mark Twain pharmacopoeia. In the issue of Lancet that reached the U.S. last week, Inman told of a 13 -year-old boy who came to him with ten warts on his thumb. Dr. Inman told him to touch the tip of his tongue to each wart every morning because saliva is peculiarly poisonous to warts, but not to tell anybody. The warts went away...
...baffling epidemic in Dundee was reported in the same issue of the Lancet. Women were turning up at doctors' offices suffering from bullous erythema (reddish blisters) on their legs. The doctors wondered: Was it due to chemical burns? To a new skin disease? Dr. John Kinnear, of the Dundee Royal Infirmary, discovered and pondered the fact that all the women had been riding the same tram line. Dr. Kinnear inspected and confirmed a suspicion: bedbugs...
...something. His research team at Wellcome Physiological Laboratory, Beckenham, Kent, had produced a new antibiotic from bacteria (Bacillus aerosporus) found in soil from a market garden. The antibiotic is called aerosporin (pronounced a-ross-poe-rin). The researchers' tests and findings were reported with cautious excitement in Lancet...