Word: penicillin
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...little boy with a terrible staphylococcus infection did not improve under sulfapyridine treatment. Penicillin reduced the infection, brought his temperature down to normal. He later died from a ruptured blood vessel...
...year-old boy "extremely ill" with staphylococcus poisoning of the leg developed a kidney infection. Sulfathiazole did little good. Penicillin relieved his pain, cleared up the infection in a month...
...month-old baby smitten with a mysterious urinary infection (with convulsions and diarrhea) was not helped by sulfapyridine. Penicillin cured him in three weeks...
...precise nature of the effective ingredient in penicillin is not known. It is difficult to give by mouth, because it is digested by stomach juices. So far, in cases of blood poisoning, the doctors have dripped as much as 36 oz. a day of very dilute solution into their patients' veins. Unlike the sulfa drugs, the mold is bland, has no poisonous effects. Said the workers: "An improvement in the spirits and appetite of the patient during treatment was remarked on in all the cases...
...great drawback is the fact that penicillin is difficult and expensive to extract. Until it can be synthesized, or more cheaply prepared, it will probably be reserved only for desperate cases-for heavily infected wounds, severe staphylococcic diseases, possibly gas gangrene. It cannot yet be obtained...