Word: sulfa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week it looked as though the problem of sulfa poisoning was solved. Dr. Perrin Long of Johns Hopkins reported a new, innocuous relative of sulfanilamide: sulfadiazine. A compound of sulfanilamide and part of vitamin B, the new drug, which is swallowed with water or injected, turns the same trick sulfanilamide does, plays no tricks on the patient...
Said Dr. Long: "Instead of feeling miserable, as with the other sulfa* compounds, patients who have taken sulfadiazine feel fine next day and start asking for food." The drug, he told his colleagues, is apparently as effective as its relatives in cases of pneumonia, gonorrhea, various streptococcic and staphylococcic infections...
...prefix meaning a compound of sulfur and ammonia. Sulfa is medical shorthand for sul-fonatnide...
...philosophies, his love for the art and literature of medicine, his flashes of Roman fire. The book is crammed with pictures from Chinese, Arabian and Egyptian texts, including many ingenious forms of primitive therapy (see cut). It records medical progress up to and including the discovery of the new sulfa-drugs. Among the important European physicians whom Dr. Castiglioni discusses...
...Eleanor Albert Bliss, 41, worked with Dr. Perrin Long of Johns Hopkins in bringing sulfanilamide to the U. S. She is also one of the chief authorities in the newer sulfa-drugs, is known as one of the best-dressed women in Baltimore...