Word: penicillins
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...last Crimson back to be named All-American in football. Wood graduated summa cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and went on to become a bacteriologist who wrote one of the first papers on penicillin. Wood spent his life as a teacher, physician, and researcher and served 11 years as head of the department of microbiology at Johns Hopkins University...
...between the plight of the two men and the fate of England. The word island recurs: England shorn of empire, reduced to her physical boundaries, but with names and deeds of the past intoned like a faint requiem of glory-Newton, and Sir Walter Raleigh and the discovery of penicillin. The sceptered isle has become a gleamless cinder on the tides of history...
...This in turn reduces the resistance to infection. Urinary-tract infections may manifest themselves by a burning pain during urination. Eventually, they can involve not only the urethra and bladder, but extend up to the kidneys. They are among the most stubborn and hard to treat of common infections. Penicillin is usually ineffective, and urologists have to rely on other antibiotics or other drugs such as the sulfas...
...came as no surprise to the medical world. Over the past five centuries, there had been massive flare-ups of venereal disease-the worst of them during wartime.* But the World War II epidemic was cut short by the 1945 discovery that both diseases could be cured by penicillin. The numbers of new cases reported annually in the U.S. declined through the 1950s and early 1960s, and venereologists hoped that the twin scourges would soon be wiped...
Epidemiologists do not agree on the causes for VD's current upswing. Health authorities admit that the Viet Nam conflict has had little impact on U.S. health. Many doctors believe that the preliminary victories of penicillin over VD were oversold, and that a false sense of security was created, especially among the young. Some blame the Pill, claiming that oral contraceptives are being widely used instead of condoms. But the use of condoms has actually increased since 1960. Only one thing is certain: no one can satisfactorily explain the current epidemic...