Word: penicillins
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...there were 267,026 fewer deaths than the U.S. would have had if 1940 mortality rates had prevailed. Pneumonia and influenza suffered the sharpest defeat: penicillin and sulfa drugs saved about 57,000 from these diseases...
...Administration's remedy looked more like sulphur & molasses than penicillin, but it might ease the pains a little. The biggest spending departments and agencies of the Government were ordered to place as many Government contracts as possible in areas where unemployment is chafing the most-when it can be done without hurting any other regions too much...
Many a patient who takes penicillin in lozenges or sprays shows a marked discoloration of the tongue; most U.S. doctors have blamed the disease rather than the cure. Following up the work of doctors in Britain and India, Dr. Samuel A. Wolfson of Los Angeles came to a different conclusion: he showed that penicillin itself causes blackening of the tongue, may even cause the growth of black "hairs" up to half an inch long. Fortunately, the disorder clears up automatically after penicillin treatment is ended...
Nobody knows how penicillin causes this reaction, nor why it is seldom, if ever, observed when the drug is given in the form of injections...
...year-old boy at Taos, a 37-year-old man at Albuquerque) need not share the fate of the helpless millions slaughtered by bubonic plague in the past. At week's end, both were recovering handily, the boy treated with streptomycin and sulfadiazine, the man with penicillin and aureomycin...