Word: penicillins
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Ever since penicillin's potency against the gonococcus was discovered, health experts have hoped it would eventually provide a quick treatment that a doctor could give in his office. Hitherto gonorrhea patients have had to be hospitalized (expensive) or treated repeatedly (difficult because many are too irresponsible to keep appointments...
...Using penicillin dissolved in water, treatment was gradually worked down to three hypodermic injections two hours apart. Then came the discovery, announced last year (TIME, Sept. 11), that penicillin mixed with beeswax and peanut oil is disseminated slowly through the body, keeping the penicillin content of blood high for hours. The Public Health Service acted swiftly. To 137 doctors throughout the land went instructions and the penicillin mixture with the request that they try single injections of 200,000 units (2 cc.) on as many patients as possible and report the results. Back came results on 1,060 cases: over...
Chief lifesavers : penicillin, the sulfa drugs, whole blood and plasma, skilled care...
...think penicillin is a cure-all," said penicillin's discoverer, Sir Alexander Fleming on THE MARCH OF TIME last week. "It has an extraordinary effect on many of the common microbes . . . but on others it is quite inactive. The publicity given to penicillin has caused me to receive thousands of letters from sufferers from tuberculosis and other diseases which penicillin does not touch." But as Sir Alexander long ago predicted, another mold-produced antibiotic-streptomycin (TIME, Jan. 29)-has given promise of succeeding where penicillin fails. Recent encouraging news of streptomycin's performance...
Army surgeons quietly announced this major triumph of World War II medicine last week. The chief credit for saving the lives of spinal cord casualties goes to penicillin and the sulfa drugs, which helped remove the greatest single danger-infection of the bladder and kidneys. But more remarkable than life-saving is the job 21 U.S. Army hospitals are doing in restoring these paralyzed men to something like normal life...