Word: sulfas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bovet, 50, Swiss-born but now a naturalized Italian. One of the research stars of Rome's Istituto Superiore di Sanità, he is a scientist's scientist who has spent a lifetime in quiet laboratories. Though his discoveries have been the basis of countless medical products-sulfa drugs, antihistamines, muscle relaxants-he has never taken out a patent in his own name or made a penny from the commercial exploitation of his findings...
When slim Filipino Nurse Pet Duruin arrived in Viet Nam, the first Vietnamese words she learned were: "Mot ngay ba vien," meaning "one tablet three times a day." Nurse Duruin repeated this phrase as often as 200 times a day as she passed out quinine and sulfa pills from her own thin, bronzed hand to the equally bronzed but thinner hands of the wretched refugees streaming in from the Communist north. For this was October 1954, following the invasion debacle that ended with the surrender of Dienbienphu to the Reds...
Sakacs was started on a heroic regimen of four antibiotics plus sulfa drugs. Bubonic plague itself is not highly contagious. But there was a danger that the disease might spread to his lungs−where it would become the dangerously infectious form known as pneumonic plague, or "Black Death."* Two dozen people who had come in contact with him got sulfa and an antibiotic as a preventive...
...have it destroyed by insulinase, an enzyme made by the liver. Injections of insulin, which have prolonged and saved countless lives for 33 years, simply supply outside insulin. A more logical treatment, Dr. Mirsky thinks, would be to block the insulinase. Both the new drugs-close kin to the sulfa drugs-work by poisoning the insulinase...
Next day Dr. Harry & Co., who were collecting marine specimens near by, raced to the village and bought Eugenie for $20. She was given a sulfa treatment for her spear wound and nursed back to health (on a diet of clams and cucumbers) in a local swimming pool. No available aircraft could carry a tankful of water big enough to enclose a sea-elephant, but since the taxi ride proved that Eugenie could live out of water, Dr. Harry decided to fly her home on an air mattress...