Word: staphylococcus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little boy with a terrible staphylococcus infection did not improve under sulfapyridine treatment. Penicillin reduced the infection, brought his temperature down to normal. He later died from a ruptured blood vessel...
Last week doctors hailed an old conqueror of the dread staphylococcus germ. Considered by some scientists a virus, by others an enzyme, this germ-eater is called bacteriophage. Strains of bacteriophage are found in the human intestinal tract, in urine, pus, blood and sewage. About 25 years ago, bacteriophage was first isolated by a British scientist from a dead germ colony. The mysterious substance that killed the bacteria was able to pass through a fine filter and infect other colonies. Some doctors soon dreamed of it as a universal panacea. (Sinclair Lewis dramatized this hope in his novel Arrowsmith.) Compared...
...York State Medical Society meeting in Buffalo last week, Dr. Ward J. MacNeal of Columbia University told how he had used bacteriophage in treating osteomyelitis (an infection of bone often caused by the staphylococcus), had saved not only limbs, but lives. Dr. MacNeal said that in the last ten years he had given bacteriophage to 500 patients with severe infections, had cured 34%-a high proportion...
Poisons. Most food poisoning, popularly known as ptomaine poisoning, comes from eating custards, ice cream or sausages which contain staphylococcus germs, usually occurs in the summer, if these foods are not kept...
...best drug to cure dread staphylococcus bloodstream infections is sulfathiazole, a sulfanilamide relative which came out last year...