Word: sulfa
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...American and the Japanese are like Cain and Abel in the primeval jungle of human conscience. Quicksand sucks down the American; the Japanese hauls him out. When gangrene threatens the Japanese, the American pours his only packet of sulfa powder into the ugly leg wound. The pair learn each other's names-Alvin and Kimura. When Alvin moons about his girl in Sedalia, Mo., Kimura mimes the death of his wife in an air raid. In such scenes, Actor Hayakawa makes Kimura grow wordlessly in stature and sympathy. Actor Piazza cannot prevent poor, blathering Alvin from being a bore...
...other half die. Bile pigment, which the immature liver cannot handle, may pile up in the blood and cause brain damage. Best way to treat it, Dr. Dennis said, is to replace 80% to 90% of the baby's blood in an exchange transfusion. A note of caution: sulfa drugs seem to increase the risk of cerebral palsy from bile pigment, should not be given to preemies...
Doctor: O.K., use one of the oral medicines. Try triple sulfa. Give him plenty of fluids and two grains of aspirin every four hours. Call me in three days...
...luxury Giménez Guinea rarely enjoys. He told an assistant to inject antibiotics. Then he went to work with especially sharp, small scalpels with interchangeable blades of razor steel. Don Luis trimmed away dead tissue, sewed the edges of healthy tissue together, dusting the wound with germ-killing sulfa drugs. The most urgent work done, he sent Bienvenida to the Sanatorio, a few blocks away...
...sexy blonde in a continental nightspot? Fielding's warnings: 1) chances are she can't leave the premises before closing time, and 2) even if she can, "she might leave you a souvenir. There's a new strain of gonorrhea so hardy that it eats sulfa and penicillin for breakfast...