Word: penicillins
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...Travell easily diagnosed the ailment as a respiratory infection caused by what she called "the two-days' virus." Fearful that the President's back injury would weaken his resistance, she gave her patient an oral dose of tetracycline (aureomycin under another name), a whopping intramuscular shot of penicillin (1.2 million units, or at least three times what most doctors would have prescribed for an otherwise healthy adult). She also gave him an extra dose of the corticosteroids he regularly takes to compensate for his longstanding adrenal insufficiency. The fever rose to a high...
...population that their best hopes lay in a continued association with France, Paris is investing $600 million a year in Algeria for roads, schools, housing and industry. An effective battle against disease has made Algeria's population grow by a substantial 2.5% a year (lower-class Moslems call penicillin "the drug that helps make babies"), keeping the average income constant and low. But the coming of oil and the Constantine Plan had brought new hope...
...Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease are largely preventable with prompt penicillin treatment of "strep throat," but take 20,000 lives annually...
...Greater teen-age promiscuity, includng a take-a-chance attitude now that penicillin has all but eliminated the fear of death and disfigurement...
...book on the duty desk showed what drugs a Liberian freighter is required to carry. The doctor wrote out a message: Tea and Mineral Water. "Keep the patient in bed with absolute rest. Apply linseed poultices continuously on the swollen jaw. Give intramuscular injection of 500,000 units of penicillin combined with half gram of streptomycin morning and evening. Give only weak tea, orange juice, mineral water for 24 hours." After two days the Henri G. reported: "Patient seems better this morning. Yesterday evening pulse go fever 102 this morning pulse 70 temperature 98.6.'' More exchanges followed. Finally...