Word: lungs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impatient sufferers (many of them dying), the good news came none too soon. Penicillin (sometimes rhymes with villain, sometimes with whistle in) is the best treatment for all staphylococcic infections, all hemolytic streptococcic infections, clostridia infections, pneumococcic infections (of the lining of skull, spinal cord, lung and heart surfaces), pneumococcic pneumonia that sulfa drugs will not cure, all gonococcic infections (including all gonorrhea that sulfa drugs will not cure). Diseases against which penicillin is effective but not fully tested: syphilis, actinomycosis, bacterial endocarditis...
...pure form and then to synthesize it. They found that in the body it makes salicylic acid. Another anticoagulant, heparin, was already on the market. It is also used to keep donors' blood fluid until it can be processed. But it is an expensive extract of ox lung and liver, must be given by injection, and is hard to control. Therefore surgeons (who worry lest a fatal clot undo their work) took up Dicumarol...
Charlie Vinal, as most Boston jazz fans know, is something of a hotrock clarinetist and a pretty damn fine guy. A siege of infantile paralysis several years ago nearly put Charlie out for the count, but after eight months in an iron lung he picked up fast and now plays clarinet as tirelessly as ever from a wheelchair. Pee Wee Russell and Frank Teschemacher represent his school of hot clarinet, and Charlie is an apt pupil. His record collection is one of the best in New England, and Charlie's home has for years been a regular stop for visiting...
...flamethrower is more than psychologically effective. Its heat is flesh-withering, lung-bursting. Its flame sucks up oxygen from confined space (such as an apertured pillbox), leaves those inside gasping or collapsed. Against a dug-in enemy whose field of fire is blocked by good cover, it is an awesome and handy weapon to have around...
Toxoplasmosis is a "new" disease, though African rodents and people have probably suffered from it since germs began. It often kills its victims soon after the first appearance of symptoms-rash, fever, lung infection, blindness and, in children, convulsions. But there was good news about toxoplasmosis in last week's Journal of the A.M.A.: Harvard's Drs. David Weinman and Robert Berne have proved that sulfapyridine cures the disease in 95 out of 100 mice even in very late stages of the disease...