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Experiments have already shown that penicillin attacks certain bacteria more successfully than sulfa drugs do. Unlike sulfa drugs, penicillin's effects are not inhibited by pus and other materials formed in infected wounds. Used in low concentrations in the blood stream, penicillin's action is bacteriostatic, i.e., it prevents bacteria from multiplying and renders them easy prey for white blood corpuscles. Penicillin solutions strong enough to kill bacteria may safely be injected under the skin near a wound or used as a dressing...
...would take all the bloody operating stuff to a stream, wash it out, and Emily would re-sterilize it for use that night. I got four scratches, two on each foot, dropping boxes on myself while moving and then getting streptococcus sloughs from infected patients' blood and pus dropping onto my feet, and they took forever to heal. Yesterday was the first day I didn't have to have a dressing on my right foot for three months...
...There are two main forms of sinusitis. The acute form is accompanied by a watery discharge or pus; the chronic form may be wet or may have no pus, no dripping, but a thickening of the membranes, which sometimes become swollen with little buds called polyps...
Since germ-laden pus drips down the back of the nose and throat, some victims of sinus disease are liable to suffer serious trouble in other parts of the body. They may become sickly, irritable, insomniac, develop a cough, tonsillitis, arthritis, earaches...
...generation before the war Szechwan, richest, largest, most populous province of China, lived by itself. Warlords dominated it. They lived in great palaces equipped with foreign-style, pink, green and lavender-tiled bathrooms pleasing to their many concubines. The streets of their cities stank with opium. Szechwan was a pus-pocket in the nation from which poison seeped through all China. While Chiang built a modern central Government in the lower Yangtze Valley, the Szechwanese went their way almost untouched...