Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quick cure of early syphilis-the first safe and effective drug to kill the spirochete. Sulfa drugs are not effective against syphilis. But penicillin will not entirely supplant sulfa drugs. The sulfa drugs are still necessary for: 1) intestinal infections (penicillin is destroyed in the digestive tract); 2) bacillus coll infections of the urinary tract (penicillin does not attack b. coli); 3) as prophylactics in epidemics of certain diseases like meningitis, pneumonia, gonorrhea (penicillin is excreted too fast to be used for this purpose...
...John P. Marquand's So Little Time "did me more good than all the liver ex tract and iron in the world...
...That the currents in the digestive tract can be reversed by worry was well shown by a nervous young woman who one day received a menacing letter from the income-tax collector. This so frightened her that . . . she took to her bed and vomited day & night for a week. She stopped only when . . . I went to the Custom House and appeased Uncle Samuel with...
Ulcer and Pseudo-Ulcer. Pseudo-ulcer is a fairly common condition. Many sup posed symptoms of stomach ulcer merely indicate an overly irritable digestive tract (which in many patients may be thrown out of kilter just by a drink of cold water...
...factories built since then have multiplied that output many times. But before war came, hexamine was a minor industrial product. Its chief uses then were in the manufacture of plastics and as an ingredient in an antiseptic for the urinary tract...