Word: penicillins
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...know where he can find a good-looking girl. So we'll tell him. It's part of life and part of travel." On the other hand, the Guide makes a point of warning that "there's a new strain of gonorrhea so hardy that it eats sulfa and penicillin for breakfast...
...trouble, say Murray and his colleagues in the New England Journal of Medicine, is that most doctors in the East are not alert to the danger. Unless they happen to spot the palms-and-soles rash, they are likely to misdiagnose the disease and treat it with sulfas or penicillin-both of which seem to make it worse. Lives can be saved, they say, if doctors will look for the distinctive signs, especially in summer, when the Cape and the islands are crawling with tourists-and ticks...
...addition, Richie Hardy has been on penicillin all week and Gary Montero is still recovering from a serious muscle pull...
Dorothy Crawfoot Hodgkin won the Nobel Prize in 1964 for her determination of the structure of Vitamin B12. She has also determined the X-ray structure of penicillin. Politically, Mrs. Hodgkin is probably the most left-leaning of the honorary degree recipients...
...begins at 5 a.m. when a pretty, auburn-haired night nurse wakes the men with the inevitable hypodermic of penicillin, and leaves. It ends at 11 p.m. when she comes back on duty, switching off the TV and lights. Day is half-read magazines and half-watched television, dressings to be changed, and surprisingly good food to be taken on a tray in bed or, if one is able and ambitious, in the mess hall with the scores of other shuffling men in their faded blue pajamas. It is the colonel making his rounds, passing out Purple Hearts and, oddly...