Word: penicillins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Funds from the sales provide penicillin, tuberculosis vaccine and milk for the world's needy children. Cards can be ordered from Chartrand and from Myra Joseph '59 in Whitman Hall...
After a typical run of humdrum assignments as a U.S. Public Health Service surgeon, Van Slyke found himself at World War II's end investigating the potency of penicillin as a treatment for venereal disease. When the price of penicillin plummeted, freeing money previously earmarked for this project. Van Slyke was assigned to distribute $400,000 in grants for medical research. With this modest sum, Van Slyke began in 1946 by cautiously asking medical schools whether they could tse any money. He was promptly deluged with requests, and Congress gradually upped its medical research approprialtion...
Working at a U.S. Army hospital in Augsburg, West Germany, Major Vernon M. Smith put one drop of standard penicillin solution inside the lower eyelid of his subjects, and another drop on a light scratch made on the arm with a hypodermic needle. If within 20 minutes the eye did not become red, itchy or swollen, and if the inflamed area on the arm was no more than 1 cm. in diameter, it was considered safe to give the subject a full shot of the antibiotic. Only one man had a mild unfavorable reaction to the test itself; of more...
...Smith's test fails to screen out patients who may have reactions that develop more slowly. But for them there was good news also. Two doctors at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Great Lakes, Ill. reported that injections of penicillinase (an enzyme that destroys penicillin in the body), given along with antihistamines, will clear up most cases of rashes, fever, swelling and painful joints caused by penicillin...
...Penicillin and aspirin, the two drugs used for the greatest number of patients, are also, the two that cause the greatest number of harmful reactions. Commonest aspirin reactions are allergic, especially in asthmatics; massive overdosing (usually seen in small children) may cause coma and death...