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Said Dr. Long: "Instead of feeling miserable, as with the other sulfa* compounds, patients who have taken sulfadiazine feel fine next day and start asking for food." The drug, he told his colleagues, is apparently as effective as its relatives in cases of pneumonia, gonorrhea, various streptococcic and staphylococcic infections...
...last eight years, chemists have concocted 1,200 sulfur-bearing drugs. But only five, including sulfanilamide and sulfadiazine, can be used in the human body. The other three: ¶ Sulfapyridine, a specific for pneumonia. In the last year, this drug, which is used together with serums, reduced the pneumonia deaths in the U. S. by half. > Sulfathiazole, specific for dread staphylococcic infections...
...Champion Eugene Turner. > Silver-haired Willie Hoppe, 53-year-old, 45-year veteran cueman; the monthlong, round-robin tournament for the world's three-cushion billiard championship; for the second successive year; winning all but one of his 17 matches, after a tardy start because of pneumonia; at Bensinger's billiard parlors, Chicago...
...Pneumonia and tuberculosis can be overcome, says Dr. Lim, only if troops are provided with adequate clothing and food. "One of the most serious of venereal diseases is gonorrheal ophthalmia [inflammation of the eyes]" due to lack of water, neglect of elementary personal hygiene (and vitamin A deficiency...
Died. Robert Walton Moore, 81, shrewd, leathery Virginia politico,' most intimate personal friend of Cordell Hull, Congressman for six terms, Assistant Secretary of State 1933-37, Counselor of the Department since 1937; of pneumonia; at his Fairfax, Va. home...