Word: prontylin
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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When Franklin Roosevelt's throat grew swollen and raw and his temperature rose to a portentous degree. Dr. Tobey gave him hypodermic injections of Prontosil, made him swallow tablets of a modification named Prontylin. Under its influence, young Roosevelt rallied at once, thus providing an auspicious introduction for a product about which U. S. doctors and laymen have known little...
...Hamilton Long of Johns Hopkins risked criticism by presenting a brief, preliminary report concerning Prontosil to the Southern Medical Association. Up to last week the Journal of the American Medical Association, which has the biggest (95,200) circulation of all medical publications, printed not a word about Prontosil or Prontylin. Cautious Editor Morris Fishbein, who was educated to be a pathologist, has on at least one previous occasion nearly scorched his editorial nose by prematurely poking it into news of chemical drugs. It will be a long time before he forgets publishing in his Journal a hasty report...