Word: penicillins
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...preventives have no such drawback. But medical officers in all the armed forces still have to fight against ignorance and superstition. It takes only one oddball muttering "Those pills will make you sterile, buddy," and rumor buzzes around the base. Great quantities of medicine get flushed down the toilets. Penicillin was whispered to impair potency. Recruits who were supposed to take it daily as a preventive against rheumatic fever often spat out the tablets after they had passed the issue line...
...Blood and Bombs and the other Guts and Glory. We started the project at 8 p.m., and by 11 we had cut out and pasted to the walls of our living room 147 panels. These ranged from a buxom nurse giving a G.I. a shot of penicillin to a Communist guerrilla with his intestines exposed by mortar fire. The next day I stomped flat eleven empty cans. We stuck mostly to Campbell soup cans, but threw in a sweet potato can and a cardboard chow mein container for originality. These I nailed to the walnut paneling above the fireplace. When...
...they urge their older patients to get a preventive shot? Philadelphia's Dr. Robert Austrian asked the Association of American Physicians those questions last week, and the University of Pennsylvania professor promptly answered his own questions. Doctors, he said, have been so dazzled by penicillin that they rely on it even in cases where it is least effective...
...neither reliable nor safe. Then came the sulfas, and an intensified search for better medications for both prevention and treatment. Toward war's end, the armed forces developed a vaccine from a fraction of the pneumococcus microbe itself. But six different types were needed. And by then, penicillin was becoming available. It was a great pneumococcus killer. Doctors ignored the vaccines...
This was all very well for younger patients: penicillin and their own powers of recovery would usually pull them through. But Dr. Austrian studied 529 pneumonia patients at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, and found that almost one-third of those over 50 died of their bloodstream infection. It seemed to have made no difference if they got penicillin...