Word: pneumonia
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Irvin Cobb, ill (pneumonia) in Manhattan, deplored admirers who sent him regrets about his "dangerous illness" by wire (collect) or phone (charges reversed...
Last week the original death sentence was indirectly carried out. In prison Editor Ramm contracted double pneumonia. Then the Gestapo knew what to do. Prisoner Ramm was ordered home to Norway. At Odense, Denmark, he died...
...sulfathiazole in each "tablet." According to last week's Apothecary, a patient who chews the gum for 30 minutes to an hour gets a high concentration of the drug in his saliva (70 milligrams per 100 cc. of saliva; the concentration used in the blood in acute pneumonia is only five to ten milligrams per 100 cc.). Although the concentration is high in the saliva, very little gets into the blood stream and "there is but slight possibility of any systematic toxicity"-i.e., the sulfa in the gum will probably do no harm. Drugstores will have...
...planted 200 Victory gardens, studied 50 languages and dialects, done exercises graduated from toe-wiggling in bed to ten-mile hikes with full packs. The hospitals find that under the A.A.F. system 1) 25% fewer men have relapses; 2) convalescence from certain acute, contagious diseases (e.g., virus pneumonia, scarlet fever and measles) has been...
...best anti-t.b. drug. Three good points about Diasone: it is only slightly toxic, therefore can be used in fairly large quantities with safety; it is as good as sulfanilamide in curing streptococcus infections in mice; it is almost as good as sulfadiazine in curing type II pneumonia. The big question: Will Diasone help human patients...