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...blonde in a continental nightspot? Fielding's warnings: 1) chances are she can't leave the premises before closing time, and 2) even if she can, "she might leave you a souvenir. There's a new strain of gonorrhea so hardy that it eats sulfa and penicillin for breakfast...
What to Do? Most of the dangerous staph are immediately found to be resistant to penicillin and streptomycin. They show descending orders of resistance to the tetracyclines (Aureomycin, Terramycin, Achromycin) and chloramphenicol (Chloromycetin). Strains have emerged that show varying resistance to still newer antibiotics. Strangely, nobody knows exactly how severe the problem is because most deaths caused by staph are not so listed. If a patient admitted for heart surgery dies of a staph infection, his death is attributed to the original heart trouble. Example: in Seattle and surrounding King County, only four deaths...
...Penicillin and chlortetracycline (Aureomycin) are effective anti-decay agents, as are urea and dibasic ammonium carbonate; other antibiotics and chemicals tested (among them, many of those now commonly blended into toothpastes) do little or no good...
Clark sloshed to the courthouse and went to work, dressing wounds, administering sedatives, giving anti-tetanus and penicillin shots with supplies salvaged from the clinic. Soon he got word that his fine new home had simply disappeared. There was no sign of his wife or their three youngest children, aged 2½ months to three years...
Funds from the sales provide penicillin, tuberculosis vaccine and milk for the world's needy children. Cards can be ordered from Chartrand and from Myra Joseph '59 in Whitman Hall...