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...Most likely second victim: drug manufacturer Schering Corp. (sulfa drugs, hormones, antishock vaccines), Swiss-controlled since Hermann Goring ordered its German parent to sell its U.S. stock interest five years ago. Month ago, the Treasury stripped Schering of eight top executives; last week Schering got a new Treasury-approved vice president and director: Gerald E. Donovan of Schroder Rockefeller...
...hours and fill up operating tables in large tents. Often bombs fall so close to his operating table that Surgeon Lieut. Colonel Jack Schwartz must hesitate an instant until it is steady again. Major operations are usually performed under local anesthetic. But so far there have been enough sulfa drugs for all patients...
...about 63,000 people in the U.S. died of pneumonia, instead of 110,000 as four years earlier. Reason for the decline: widespread use of sulfa drugs. Since 1937 the Federal Government has given money to 21 States and Hawaii to help support programs providing free sulfa drugs and serums for pneumonia victims...
...large supply of stored blood in Honolulu); 3) thorough débridement (trimming) of all injured tissue-if allowed to remain it dies, becomes a breeding ground for gangrene germs; 4) no suturing, even of big wounds -if left alone, new tissue grows up rapidly; 5) liberal use of sulfa drugs; 6) painstaking care after operation...
...injuries were burns. Most of these were "flash" burns (instantaneous) on bare legs and arms. If the sailors had worn long pants and sleeves, said the doctors, they might not have been hurt. Three types of treatment were used: 1) dressings soaked in mineral oil and sulfa drugs; 2) bandages dipped in gun tubs filled with tannic acid; 3) tannic-acid jelly. (Plain sulfa powders were discontinued because they caked on wounds.) > Newly made morphine "syrettes," ampules filled with morphine and fitted with sterile hypodermic needles enclosed in glass tubes, were great timesavers. > Since mouth and jaw injuries were rare...