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Most victims of last week's medical catastrophe suffered from gonorrhea, some had septic sore throats. Latest remedy for those grave conditions-and a good remedy in case of scarlet fever, erysipelas, and cerebrospinal meningitis-is sulfanilamide. Noting a great demand for sulfanilamide, 61-year-old Dr. Samuel Evans Massengill, who compounds veterinary medicines in a good-sized factory at Bristol, Tenn., this summer decided to add that drug to his line. Knowing that his Southern customers prefer their medicines in bottles,* he sought something in which to dissolve sulfanilamide, which had hitherto been taken in tablets and intravenous...
...abed with what was described to the press as "sinus trouble." The young man did have infected sinuses, and he was in the capable, Republican hands of Dr. George Loring Tobey Jr., a fashionable and crackerjack Boston ear, nose & throat specialist. He also had a graver affliction, septic sore throat, and there was danger that the Streptococcus haemolyticus might get into his blood stream. Once there the germs might destroy the red cells in his blood. In such a situation, a rich and robust Harvard crewman is no safer from death than anybody else...
...drug which cured young Roosevelt seems to be a specific cure for all streptococcic infections-septic sore throat, childbed fever, postabortal septicemia. It has helped to cure cases of peritonitis due to ruptured appendix, perforated stomach ulcer or gallbladder. It has been effective in postoperative wounds, endocarditis, suppurative mastoiditis, and tonsillitis. Some cases of erysipelas (also a streptococcic infection) have yielded to Prontosilmedication. The drug also has ameliorated severe cases of carbuncles and cellulitis due to staphylococcus, a different kind of germ...
...deadliness. In the case of Prontosil, since like dinitrophenol it affects the production of white blood cells, it comes under the medical rule of thumb: what ever stimulates may also destroy. And it may be that the new drug by which Dr. Tobey cured Franklin Roosevelt Jr.'s septic sore throat may have exhausted the young man's reserve of white blood cells to be used against some other infection...
...epidemic of serious food-borne infection such as typhoid fever, or septic sore throat, has occurred in the University for many years. Our experience with the mild forms of gastro-intestinal outbreaks is almost identical with that of other colleges and Universities, as well as that of the best type of hotels and restaurants