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...Navy doctor estimated that 15% of them had been so underfed that they would never reach Japan. Another 15% had tuberculosis. The rest were in varying stages of emaciation, suffering from pellagra, beri beri and scurvy. To treat them, the Japs had no plasma or whole blood, no penicillin, sulfa or synthetic vitamins...
Chief lifesavers : penicillin, the sulfa drugs, whole blood and plasma, skilled care...
Dysentery is caused by intestinal organisms, most of which are spread by flies.Preventive: kill the flies with D.D.T. Treatment: for some types, sulfa drugs and antiserums, for others, ipecac...
Army surgeons quietly announced this major triumph of World War II medicine last week. The chief credit for saving the lives of spinal cord casualties goes to penicillin and the sulfa drugs, which helped remove the greatest single danger-infection of the bladder and kidneys. But more remarkable than life-saving is the job 21 U.S. Army hospitals are doing in restoring these paralyzed men to something like normal life...
Based on New York City records (considered typical of U.S. cities), the chart shows the general trend of changes in death rates, by diseases, since 1930. Thanks to universal vaccination, sulfa drugs, penicillin, etc., the mortality from most germ diseases is dropping toward the vanishing point (diphtheria deaths, for example, dropped from a yearly average of 1,290 in 1910-19 to seven in 1944). But deaths from degenerative diseases have risen sharply, and are still rising...