Word: streptococcus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first U.S. trials of a sulfa drug was made in 1936 on a sinus infection of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (he was cured). Since then interest in sulfa cures has centered around other infections-pneumonia, gonorrhea, streptococcus diseases. But last week Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat Specialist Roland F. Marks of the University of California Medical School announced that sulfathiazole treatment for maxillary sinusitis (inflammation of cheek sinuses) improved 70% of his patients in three or four weeks. He recommends that doctors try the drug before resorting to surgery...
...morning, then the nurses and I 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...
...commentator for Universal Newsreel. Three weeks ago he handled the Elsa Maxwell's Party Line show (Blue, Fridays, 10 p.m. E.W.T.), signed off with his usual "This is Graham McNamee." It was his last sign-off. In a New York hospital (where he had gone because of a streptococcus infection) death last week silenced the voice...
Died. Elizabeth Idabelle Firestone Graham, 27, wife of Defense Commission Aide Ray Austin Graham Jr., only daughter of the late Tire Tycoon Harvey Firestone; of a streptococcus infection; in Washington...
...wonder drug, sulfanilamide, has cured apparently hopeless streptococcus infections, but it has also caused many a headache, and worse-nausea, dizziness, fever, even mild, temporary forms of insanity. For some patients, sulfanilamide is plain poison...