Word: sulfa
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...thin, elastic film which can be used as a surface dressing for burns. It can be impregnated with sulfa drugs or penicillin, will stay pliant and moist while the wound is still raw, so that removing it is not painful. When the wound has healed, the plastic dries and drops off like a scab...
...Hilleboe has no dramatic new weapons for his offensive. Penicillin and most of the sulfa drugs have failed against the tubercle bacillus; the few drugs that do show promise (diasone, promizole, etc.) are still largely experimental...
...Navy now authorizes the use of penicillin in all cases of gonorrhea. The few cases which do not respond to it are still treated with sulfa drugs and/or with artificial fever...
...half months before Pearl Harbor that TIME carried a column-long story about the "marvelous mold that saves lives when sulfa drugs fail"-and went on to describe penicillium notatum...
Pursers are taught how to bandage, administer laxatives, penicillin, sulfa drugs, morphine, plasma. They learn to make chest X rays and Wassermann tests, to immunize against typhus, tetanus, typhoid, smallpox. They get a smattering of psychology, more than a smattering of ship sanitation...