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Said Air Surgeon Major General David N. W. Grant: "Air evacuation . . . has contributed considerably to the tactical success of every major land offensive involving American forces. It has reduced the need for hospitalization in forward areas. . . . The record places air evacuation in a group with the sulfa drugs and blood plasma as one of the three greatest lifesaving measures of modern military medicine...
...most important patient in the world was getting well last week, somewhere in the Middle East. A sulfa drug (probably sulfapyridine) had again saved Prime Minister Winston Churchill from pneumonia (first time: last February). Before leaving for a good rest at an "unknown destination" (Axis radio reported him in Aswan), Mr. Churchill issued what the New York Times called "one of the most poignant and personal communiques ever issued from No. 10 Downing Street." It was the best advertising sulfa drugs ever...
Narrow Squeaks. The illness was one more close call for Churchill. At the age of nine, in the damp, cold English climate, he had double pneumonia. There were no sulfa drugs then. The physician who attended him remarked, when he saw the recovery, that Churchill had a charmed life...
Lockheed Aircraft research workers have made a new sulfa drug, desoxyephe-dronium sulfathiazole (a combination of an ephedrine compound which shrinks swollen membranes, and bacteria-fighting sulfathiazole), have treated more than 1,000 Lockheed colds with it. The drug was used as a nose-&-throat spray and as a nasal pack on cotton. Result: "Rather prompt relief." The spray cannot be bought without a prescription...
...Tarawa's wounded-like all the wounded from World War II-were coming home. Many would come home with missing arms, legs, eyes, faces. Blood plasma, sulfa drugs and plastic surgery would send many of them back alive but unrecognizable...