Word: penicillins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...puzzled doctors because, like rheumatic fever, it follows "strep" infections, but irregularly and in no detectable pattern. A team of Cleveland researchers headed by Dr. Charles Rammelkamp Jr. has found the answer: only two (types 4 and 12) out of 46 kinds of streptococci cause nephritis. And thorough penicillin treatment of the strep throat will ward off the kidney disease...
...Jonas E. Salk (TIME, March 29). Randy, like the rest of the Virginia kids, knew that he was getting real vaccine. (In a dozen states, half the children are being given an inert control substance.) Randy's comment: "I could hardly feel it. It hurt less than a penicillin shot...
...graft new skin on her severely burned arms and face, and baskets of flowers from grateful parents were carried in. That night, in the same hospital, two of the rescued babies died from smoke poisoning. Two others died in Dellwood. Next day, despite desperate treatment with oxygen and penicillin, four more of the babies died. One by one, as the hours wore by and mothers prayed and doctors worked, the other victims of the smoke-filled night succumbed until only two were left...
Doug Boyd spent much of the week under the influence of penicillin. Now, however, he should be back in top form...
...seven positions in today's lineup are set, but junior Kent Brown may replace Doug Boyd. Boyd got sick after the West Point tie and had to have a penicillin shot before the Princeton loss...