Word: penicillins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind the New York City campaign is a U.S. Public Health Service grant of $50,000 to try to find out how many unreported and probably unsuspected cases of syphilis are walking the streets. Experts believe that even if every new case of syphilis could be cured by penicillin, the disease still would not die out because there is always an infectious reservoir of old and unreported cases. On the sidewalks of Mulberry Street they hope to learn something about the size of that reservoir...
...denied that these have become resistant after exposure to the drug. These strains were resistant all along, he argued, but made up only 2-3% of the staphylococci; now they are involved in 50% of cases treated in hospitals and 10% of those treated outside-but only because penicillin has killed off the other strains...
...concession Sir Alexander made: penicillin is being used far too freely all over the world in cases where it can do no good, especially in common colds...
...foods do not react to them if the foods are boiled. This may explain why the British, who boil everything in sight, have so few allergies. CJ Dr. Max Berkowitz, a visitor from Israel studying the effects of drugs on children, found 11% allergic to the sulfas. 7% to penicillin, less than 2% to aspirin...
...Ehrlich's dream of a "magic bullet" to cure syphilis came a step nearer fulfillment. The Chicago health department treated 125 early cases with single whopping doses (2,500,000 units) of Bicillin, a variant of penicillin which stays in the body as long as a month. After a year, 94% had no sign of the disease...