Word: typhoid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week. The Journal of the A.M.A. published an editorial on streptothricin, derived from Actinomyces lavendulae, a mold-like bacterium. Features of Streptothricin: 1) besides attacking many Gram-positive (blue-staining) bacteria, it attacks many of the Gram-negative (red-staining) against which penicillin is almost powerless-germs of typhoid, dysentery, etc.; 2) it is safe in therapeutic doses...
...Streptothricin protects mice against 10,000 times the ordinary lethal dose of Salmonella schottmülleri (paratyphoid fever organism), Escherichia coli (colon bacillus) and Bacterium shigae (cause of Shiga dysentery). The drug's usefulness against typhoid bacteria has not yet been tested in mice, but it is effective against test-tube typhoid...
...diet is very useful in treating typhoid fever. Doctors know that typhoid patients thrive on a hearty diet, but most typhoid patients do not feel like eating. Administered by tube, the synthetic diet also works better than ordinary food because it leaves almost no residue to irritate inflamed intestines. Result: some patients, even those with high fevers, actually gain weight while they are sick...
Pursers are taught how to bandage, administer laxatives, penicillin, sulfa drugs, morphine, plasma. They learn to make chest X rays and Wassermann tests, to immunize against typhus, tetanus, typhoid, smallpox. They get a smattering of psychology, more than a smattering of ship sanitation...
There is a doctor in Mexico City who gives insulin for practically anything-typhoid fever, syphilis, peritonitis, malaria, rheumatic fever. Dr. (and Lieut. Colonel) Donate Perez Garcia gives enough insulin to bring a patient to shock stage (perspiration, high pulse, coma, high blood acidity), then he injects a solution of glucose by vein to neutralize the insulin and bring the patient to. Mixed with the glucose is the drug ordinarily used to fight whatever disease he is treating. Dr. Perez Garcia believes that the insulin makes the bacteria succumb more easily to the drug...