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...million). It ended with a list of products that sounds like an inventory of a housewife's cupboards: Clapp's Baby Foods, Anacin, Black Flag insecticides, Old English Floor Wax, 3-inONE Oil; BiSoDol, Kolynos Tooth paste, G. Washington Coffee. The com pany also spread into sulfa drugs, serums, vaccines and, recently, into large-scale production of penicillin...
...saliva; the concentration used in the blood in acute pneumonia is only five to ten milligrams per 100 cc.). Although the concentration is high in the saliva, very little gets into the blood stream and "there is but slight possibility of any systematic toxicity"-i.e., the sulfa in the gum will probably do no harm. Drugstores will have the new gum around Dec. 1, will sell it only on prescription-sulfa drugs are too tricky for indiscriminate use (TIME, June...
Last fortnight the most promising anti-t.b. drug to date was announced: Professor George W. Raiziss of Abbott Laboratories reported in Science that disodium formaldehyde sulfoxylate diamino-diphenylsulfone (short name: Diasone) is the best drug yet used to treat guinea pigs newly infected with tuberculosis. It is a sulfa drug which Professor Raiziss says is even better than Promin, another diaminodiphenylsulfone derivative, hitherto the best anti-t.b. drug. Three good points about Diasone: it is only slightly toxic, therefore can be used in fairly large quantities with safety; it is as good as sulfanilamide in curing streptococcus infections...
...cheering fact about meningococcus meningitis was reported from the U.S. Naval Hospital in San Diego. Of 50 men ingitis patients treated with sulfa drugs (TIME, Nov. 30), 48 recovered. The two who died did so almost as soon as they reached the hospital, might have lived if they had been treated soon enough. The death rate from spinal meningitis, like that of cholera or bubonic plague, used to be about 70% of all cases. Anti-meningococcus serum, which came into use about 1907, cut the mortality to around 25%. But in World War I meningitis was the sixth cause...
...Acute diarrhea kills thousands of babies yearly. Doctors do not know its cause or cure. But Drs. Allan H. Twyman and George R. Horton of Indianapolis reported in the Journal of the A.M.A. last week that they had obtained hopeful results on newborn infants with succinylsulfathiazole, a sulfa drug used in some other digestive infections. Of eleven babies treated, only two died (the doctors think those two might have been cured with larger doses). Of eleven untreated babies, four died and the others were sick twice as long as the sulfa-treated ones...