Word: sulfa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thereby creating the first "wonder drugs"; of a heart attack; in Konigsfeld, West Germany. Domagk was research director for I. G. Farben when he found some textile dyes stopped infections in mice, successfully applied a dye to his daughter's infected finger, later isolated the active ingredient, a sulfa compound he called prontosil-an achievement that won him a 1939 Nobel Prize, which Hitler, piqued with the Nobel committee at the time, forced him to refuse...
Despite Germany's wars, depressions and inflations, Bayer has always recovered by creating new products- from the world's first sulfa drugs and synthetic rubber to Europe's first color film, put out by its Agfa subsidiary. Now Bayer has regained its postwar position as the continent's biggest chemical industry. Bayer earned $50 million on last year's sales of $1 billion and recently announced that sales are running 9.5% ahead...
This kind of meningitis used to be fatal in 70% of cases. But now the Navy doctors had no need to panic. It was at this same San Diego base 20 years ago that sulfa drugs had proved an almost sure cure for meningococcal meningitis and, no less important, a superb preventive. Wilkowski, severely ill, had to have sulfadiazine intravenously, so he got penicillin as well. All 80 men in his company were ordered to take sulfadiazine tablets twice a day for three days...
Bacterial pneumonia, once a major killer, is now largely controlled by sulfa drugs and antibiotics. Viral pneumonia is another matter. Believed to be caused by many kinds of viruses, and called primary atypical pneumonia (PAP) by doctors, the disease presents an uncomfortable array of symptoms. The patient usually does not get suddenly ill; he gradually gets coldlike symptoms, distressing headaches, rising temperature, chills, and a severe cough. The sickness may last weeks, though it rarely kills...
...prices of drugs, so wherever possible we do our buying by generic name. A steroid of the cortisone group that costs us $11.50 a hundred tablets is list-priced by brand name at $170; a sedative is $3.50 by generic name, $16.20 list-priced by brand name; a sulfa derivative is $7, as against a list price of $53.32 by brand name. If we could do all our buying by getting bids from manufacturers on a generic-name basis, we could save 40% of our $315,000 annual drug bill...