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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...date was announced: Professor George W. Raiziss of Abbott Laboratories reported in Science that disodium formaldehyde sulfoxylate diamino-diphenylsulfone (short name: Diasone) is the best drug yet used to treat guinea pigs newly infected with tuberculosis. It is a sulfa drug which Professor Raiziss says is even better than Promin, another diaminodiphenylsulfone derivative, hitherto the 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...