Word: penicillins
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...marvelous mold that saves lives when sulfa drugs fail was described in the British Lancet last month by Professor Howard Walter Florey and colleagues of Oxford.+ The healing principle, called penicillin, is extracted from the velvety-green Penicillium notatum, a relative of the cheese mold. Although it does not kill germs, the mold stops the growth of streptococci and staphylococci with a power "as great or greater than that of the most powerful antiseptics known." Once the germs are checked, the body's white blood cells finish them...
...year-old boy with a bad streptococcic infection of the hip showed no improvement after large doses of sulfanilamide and sulfapyridine. Then penicillin was dripped continuously into his veins. After that he received frequent small injections of the mold. In a week he was greatly improved in spite of the small amount of penicillin he had received...
...little boy with a terrible staphylococcus infection did not improve under sulfapyridine treatment. Penicillin reduced the infection, brought his temperature down to normal. He later died from a ruptured blood vessel...
...year-old boy "extremely ill" with staphylococcus poisoning of the leg developed a kidney infection. Sulfathiazole did little good. Penicillin relieved his pain, cleared up the infection in a month...