Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clinton P. Biddle, M.B.A. '20, associate dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration and professor of Investment Banking died in his home in Weston from complications following pneumonia...
...first large-scale U. S. clinical report on sulfapyridine, published last month, Dr. Harrison Fitzgerald Flippin and associates of Philadelphia cautiously announced that the drug reduced pneumonia mortality from about...
...last week Professor Charles Fremont McKhann of Harvard threw figures to the winds, joyfully proclaimed to the Dallas Southern Clinical Society: "People just won't die from pneumonia any more...
...after the first dose, patients usually show remarkable improvement. Sometimes the drug produces nausea, vomiting or severe headache. In other cases, sulfapyridine, like sulfanilamide, may produce a dangerous decrease in the number of red blood corpuscles. Hence, it is necessary for physicians to take daily blood counts of their pneumonia patients, and give them blood transfusions if the action of sulfapyridine becomes toxic...
Contrary to first expectations, sulfapyridine cannot always be used without serums, for some patients vomit the drug immediately and cannot absorb a sufficient amount in their blood streams. And the preliminary typing of pneumococci for their appropriate serums still takes valuable time in pneumonia cases. But Dr. Perrin Hamilton Long of Johns Hopkins, first physician in the U. S. to test sulfanilamide, is already working with Dr. Eli Kennedy Marshall, who has synthesized a sodium salt of sulfapyridine, which will be injected directly into the veins and may make serums unnecessary...