Word: penicillins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Dr. John Friend Mahoney. 67, longtime (1929-49) U.S. Public Health Service careerman, who developed the penicillin cure for venereal diseases early in World War II. won the American Public Health Association's Lasker Award for the work in 1946, in 1949 announced the complete success of his method, six years after he first used it to treat patients; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in New York City...
...whom surgery offers the least risk, he follows tradition and operates promptly; the later admissions, for whom surgery would be more hazardous, he treats with drugs. He lets these rest in bed in any position they find comfortable, allows no food and only water to drink, gives them penicillin injections (250,000 units) every six hours, and in severe cases adds another antibiotic or one of the sulfas. To relieve pain, he gives meperidine or morphine...
...fought the threat of smallpox, typhoid and cholera epidemics. After the new arrivals' wounds were dressed, the most pressing problems remaining were the results of poor food and worse housing-or the lack of any. Said Brotherhood Chairman Oscar Alrenano, a Manila architect: "The Mekong can flow with penicillin, but it won't solve the problem until these people get more meat at lunch, and tiles instead of straw over their heads...
Arthritis of Rheumatic Fever. Now readily dealt with, in most cases, by prompt treatment of the rheumatic fever with aspirin and hormones of the cortisone family, and the use of penicillin to prevent recurrences. For all practical purposes: under control...
...biggest problem for industry is the time and the money it must lavish to turn theory into product. A new amplifying device for transoceanic cable was tested for 20 years before A. T. & T. decided to install it in a sample cable. Penicillin, invented for $20,000, cost millions to prepare for commercial use. RCA had invested $50 million in TV before it reached the U.S. living room, has another $30 million tied up in color TV; telephone companies buried millions of dollars worth of coaxial cable, engineered with TV in view, long before they had network customers. Monsanto tested...