Word: lobar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gypsy Rose Lee wrote to Walter Winchell from her Fort Bragg sickbed: "Everyone had flu but me. I gotta get lobar pneumonia, and me with no lobars. At least, not big lobars like other girls...
...with penicillin in the U.S. were Drs. Dorothy H. Heilman and Wallace Edgar Herrell of the Mayo Clinic. Judging from their work and that of others, penicillin should be highly useful against an impressive array of bacteria: Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes (pus formers), Diplococcus pneumoniae (usual germ of lobar pneumonia, often present in cerebrospinal meningitis and septicemia), gonorrhea germs, Neisseria intracellularis (cerebrospinal meningitis), Streptococcus viridans (heart infection), Actinomyces bovis (lumpy jaw of cattle...