Word: sulfa
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...Cabell Brown, Government-appointed president and former corporation lawyer, chemical and drug sales steadily climbed from $2.8 million in 1942 to last year's $15.4 million. Earnings per share rose from 43? to $3.12. Schering was the second company to put cortisone on the market, has marketed new sulfa and penicillin products, holds a prominent place in the antihistamine field, has introduced several important new drugs, including "Dormison" (for insomnia), and "Prantal" (for peptic ulcers...
...Conclude ... In Tulsa, Okla., Mrs. Emma Conway complained to police that her husband, after a spat, had: 1) mixed alcohol with her cosmetics, 2) smeared sulfa cream on her clothing, 3) cut the straps off her shoes, 4) dumped a hot roast with gravy all over the kitchen, 5) broken the bedroom mirror and two flower vases, 6) slashed her brassieres to shreds...
...four years ago when one of his "black gang" was found on the deck spouting blood from knife wounds in the throat and arms. There was no anesthetic on board, but the sweating Carlsen stitched the fainting victim's throat, sewed up two arteries, sprinkled the wounds with sulfa powder, and saved his life. Carlsen then grabbed the would-be murderer, got a confession, and went back to the bridge as if nothing had happened...
During his graduate studies at Chicago in 1937, Dr. Starke got early training in the use of sulfa drugs against pneumonia. Back in Sanford, he soon saw a serious case of double pneumonia and venturously tried sulfa. White doctors, including the one who was officially in charge of Starke's patient in the hospital, sneaked the charts out for a private look at the progress of a treatment which they had not yet dared to try. Says Dr. Starke: "If the sulfa hadn't worked, the ax would have fallen...
...Three Philadelphia researchers report that wounds treated with chlorophyll mend faster than those treated with penicillin or sulfa drugs. Further finding: a cut on the index finger heals faster than one on the pinky...