Word: penicillins
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...administer antitoxin to the hypodermic-shy natives. As she won the Indians' confidence, she learned that a 60-year-old woman had first come down with diphtheria in October. After that the disease had spread from tepee to tepee; three victims had already died. With antitoxin and penicillin strapped to their bodies to keep the drugs from freezing in the 40°-below weather, the two nurses examined 52 patients a day. For ten days, broth or hot brandy and sugar was the only nourishment many of the Indians got. Later, more drugs were dropped by an R.C.A.F. plane...
...worked. When penicillin killed off the streptococci early, rheumatic fever was prevented in almost every case. Dr. Rammelkamp's conclusion: "Since roughly 60% of all strep throats are severe enough to make the patient seek a physician's advice, it is now possible to prevent 60% of rheumatic fever cases...
Doctors usually like to wait ten years before declaring a case of syphilis cured. But last week the medical team which first used penicillin in human syphilis announced that the first four patients treated had been re-examined and, after six years, could be pronounced cured...
Three of the four patients had had no relapses or reinfections since their history-making treatment with penicillin. The fourth had had reinfections, but had been cured again. Concluded Dr. Arnold: "These four men have all married, have children, and have taken a respectable place in the life of the community...
...Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin...