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Gonococcic Arthritis (a frequent product of gonorrhea) is the easiest form to cure. It usually settles in the knee, ankle or shoulder and cripples about one-fourth of its victims. But early dosing with sulfa drugs brings "striking improvement" within three days. Gouty arthritis-from which more & more U.S. men are suffering-is not curable, but colchicine (a drug from a European lilylike plant) relieves it "spectacularly," although colchicine is of no use in treating any other form of arthritis...
...Along with tanks and planes, the U.S. has sent Russia 10,000 Ford trucks, 500,000 rolls of adhesive tape, 100 medical books, tin, wheat, flour, butter, steel, aviation gasoline, machine tools and machinery to drill oil wells, laundry and toilet soap, sulfa drugs...
...been done, it is necessary to cut out the section of damaged gut, patch the whole ends together again. As much as six feet of small intestine, he said, "have been removed with success." Chiefly responsible for the great reduction in mortality are: 1) the liberal use of sulfa drugs, both sprinkled on the wounds and taken internally; 2) massive blood transfusions-in some cases as much as eleven pints-which make possible bolder operations than were risked in World...
...Another sulfa drug (there are now over 1,000) may end epidemics of dysentery, one of the chief hazards of World War II. So announced Drs. Maurice Lee Moore and Charles S. Miller of Sharp & Dohme Laboratories at the Memphis meeting of the American Chemical Society last week. The drug, known as succinylsulfathiazole, is made from sulfanilamide and a fungus product. It was tried out on 40 patients at Johns Hopkins, produced no ill effects even when given in large amounts for periods as long as 16 months. Succinylsulfathiazole, said the doctors, may be important "as a protection for soldiers...
...wondrous sulfa drugs are now being used against animal diseases. Sulfanilamide cures fowl pneumonia and several eye infections, reports D. E. Lothamer of Louisville, Ohio; and sulfaguanidine cures intestinal coccidiosis, another common henyard plague, reports Professor Jerry R. Beach of the University of California. Such drugs are now a bit too costly for widespread use by poultrymen, notes Beach, but a large demand would cut the cost to a practical level...