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Only since February 1935 has the drug sulfanilamide been known. In the past three years it has proven so useful as a treatment for "coccus" infections (streptococcus, gonococcus, meningococcus) and there has been so much to learn about its effects that practically every issue of every medical journal has referred to it. Several months ago, following the deaths of two score Southerners who had taken an "elixir" of sulfanilamide & diethylene glycol (TIME, Dec. 20, et ante), the Journal of the American Medical Association published a survey of sulfanilamide's uses and dangers. But so many new discoveries have occurred...
Poliomyelitis is transmitted by a virus. Polio-encephalitis appears to be caused by a streptococcus. Dr. Edward Carl Rose-now of the Mayo Foundation cultured streptococci from inflamed muscles, injected the culture into monkeys, reproduced the disease in them. In infantile paralysis, the affected muscles are withered and flaccid; in polio-encephalitis they are not-but they are so acutely inflamed and painful that spasms often occur and any movement is impossible. Furthermore, the seat of infantile paralysis is in the spinal cord, whereas the seat of polio-encephalitis is in the brain...
...face of this new mystery, doctors tried every kind of treatment that offered faint promise. None was wholly satisfactory. Blood transfusions were the most beneficial, but failed in some cases. Vaccines made from the streptococcus and sera from the blood of recovered victims and inoculated monkeys helped only a few mildly affected patients...
Death came, as it must to all men, to Briton Hadden in 1929. Ill for two months with a streptococcus infection, he died on February 27-six years almost to the hour after he and Henry Luce had sent to press the first issue of the first newsmagazine...
...Alphonse Raymond Dochez, reported in Science that, with the help of Dr. Charles Arthur Slanetz, he has prevented and cured distemper in dogs, cats and ferrets by injections of a new drug-sodium sulfanilyl sulfanilate. This drug, a sulfur derivative like sulfanilamide which cures certain bacterial diseases (due to streptococcus, etc.), appears, according to Drs. Dochez & Slanetz, to be the "first chemical agent to have such definite therapeutic action in an infection due to a filterable virus. The range of its activity in virus diseases remains to be explored...