Word: staphylococcus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cocoanut Grove fire casualties (TIME, Dec. 7) at Massachusetts General Hospital. Each patient got sulfadiazine to prevent streptococcus infection on burned surfaces and then, if he still had a temperature six days later, intramuscular injections of 5,000 units of penicillin every four hours to prevent staphylococcus infection. It is notable that no patient so treated died of staphylococcus blood poisoning...
...Seems Likely. . . ." Among the first to experiment with penicillin in the U.S. were Drs. Dorothy H. Heilman and Wallace Edgar Herrell of the Mayo Clinic. Judging from their work and that of others, penicillin should be highly useful against an impressive array of bacteria: Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes (pus formers), Diplococcus pneumoniae (usual germ of lobar pneumonia, often present in cerebrospinal meningitis and septicemia), gonorrhea germs, Neisseria intracellularis (cerebrospinal meningitis), Streptococcus viridans (heart infection), Actinomyces bovis (lumpy jaw of cattle...
...severe cases there is no standard treatment, for every case is individual. Some people, for instance, suffer from a secondary invasion of staphylococcus germs into their broken skin. Others develop various types of inflammation. These conditions should all be treated by a dermatologist with specially compounded lotions and salves, X rays, various fungicides, and-very rarely-with phenol-camphor...
Biologist Ely nurtured a colony of mixed (Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus) bacteria on sodium phosphate whose phosphorus was radioactive. Next he injected them into the tail veins of rats. Few hours later he analyzed the rats' organs for radioactivity, found it greatest in the liver and the lungs, weakest in the brain. Concluded Ely: "The brain, apparently, has an effective means of preventing bacteria from entering it in large numbers." Further significant conclusions will probably appear as work progresses with this new technique...
...year-old boy "extremely ill" with staphylococcus poisoning of the leg developed a kidney infection. Sulfathiazole did little good. Penicillin relieved his pain, cleared up the infection in a month...