Word: sulfas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Huge C124 Globemasters with tons of medicines, food and clothing (one ton of sulfa drugs, 10,000 hypodermic needles, 4½ tons of woolen blankets) took off for Pakistan from U.S. Air Force bases in Japan, West Germany...
Experimenting with animals, Sloan-Kettering researchers set out five years ago to find a chemical compound that would selectively attack types of cancer in the way that sulfa drugs attack streptococci or penicillin controls staphylococci...
...Doctors have recently discovered that babies with blood disorders caused by Rh-factor differences in their parents have a greater chance of being born alive if their mothers during pregnancy are treated with: 1. Mescal beans. 4. Sulfa drugs...
...when sulfa drugs were the wonders of the medical world was quickly followed by the antibiotic age, and then came a time when hormones held the center of the medical stage. Next, thought some enthusiastic researchers, would come the age of enzymes-some of nature's complex chemicals which act as catalysts in countless physiological reactions. A star among the enzymes was expected to be trypsin, secreted by the pancreas. It was known to dissolve dead tissue around wounds, but a team of Manhattan researchers led by Dr. Irving Innerfield made far more dramatic claims...
...Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Drs. Howard S. Traisman and L. Martin Hardy reported to the Illinois State Medical Society, 55 of the children got only the old-fashioned treatment; 37 got a sulfa drug in addition, and similar groups received one of two antibiotics. Children in the standard-treatment group got well faster than the others; when they had complications (such as ear infections and pneumonia), these showed up sooner and were cleared up earlier with the proper drugs...