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...there were 267,026 fewer deaths than the U.S. would have had if 1940 mortality rates had prevailed. Pneumonia and influenza suffered the sharpest defeat: penicillin and sulfa drugs saved about 57,000 from these diseases...
Still Kicking. Three days later, returning East aboard a Union Pacific streamliner, the ex-President was stricken with a gall bladder attack. He had to wait five painful hours until a doctor could meet the train at Elko, Nev., give him shots of morphine, sulfa and penicillin. While ambulances and doctors stayed alerted all along the railroad to Chicago, Hoover, after a few hours' sleep, recovered fast enough to resume his gin rummy with his secretary. To a reporter who called on him, he said crisply: "I guess you just wanted to see if I was kicking...
...Treatment No. 1 is antagonistic bacilli, taken by mouth in ginger ale or some other carbonated beverage. Once in the patient's system, the bacilli produce an "antibiotic" which kills off the typhoid germs in two weeks to a month. Treatment No. 2, a combination of penicillin, three sulfa drugs (thiazole, diazine and merazine) plus alcohol and a dye called iodophthalein, injected in the patients' muscles or veins, works faster but it made 50% of Manteno's patients violently...
...Sulfa drugs, used with streptomycin, a combination discovered within the past few years, protect against the two most common forms of the plague: bubonic, which attacks the lymph glands, and pneumonic, which attacks the lungs. Sulfa drugs alone work too, in most cases after bubonic plague has struck. In one district in rural China, said Dr. Pollitzer, his WHO teams found 44 cases, saved 41. For the pneumonic form, there is rabbit serum, developed two years ago at the Hooper Foundation's animal building, known to laboratory workers and San Francisco newspapers as "Mousetown"; rabbits, like man but unlike...
Frightened parents snatch hopefully at news of any new drug for treating infantile paralysis. One such new drug is called Darvisul. A whitish powder and a member of the sulfa family, Darvisul's scientific name is N-( 2-thiazolyl)-phenol sulfonamide. At Lederle Laboratories, where it was developed, its "working names" are phenosulfazole or Drug...