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Under National Research Council supervision, several doctors are now making small-scale penicillin trials, but their work is a military secret. No secret is the drug's use on 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...
...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...