Word: typhoidal
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...never went beyond Chickamauga. Instead, he watched 112 out of the 120 men in his company succumb to malaria, typhoid and dysentery in Georgia. That caused him to worry about other things besides the classics. "Why had this government of ours rushed gaily into . . . war . . .? Why was no attention ever given to the problems of sanitation ? Why were we left with obsolete rifles . . .?" To answer some of these questions, Johnson took up economics...
Even a single antibiotic can produce harmful (sometimes fatal) results if the doctor using it is not extremely alert. This was the case with Chloromycetin. The surest cure for typhoid fever, and one of the best drugs for Rocky Mountain spotted fever, brucellosis (undulant fever), typhus and some kinds of pneumonia, it had been given to about 8,000,000 patients since it was first marketed in 1949. Then it was found (TIME, July 14) that some patients who had been getting the drug had died of aplastic anemia (in which the bone marrow is unable to do its normal...
...idea that these deaths were unnecessary, thanks to the Schick test and the proof (in 1923) of the value of toxin-antitoxin. Metropolitan officials have had the satisfaction of seeing diphtheria become so rare that they do not need to campaign against it any more. So, too, with typhoid...
...A.M.A. Journal, three groups of doctors reported fatal cases (eight in all) of aplastic anemia following treatment with the antibiotic Chloromycetin. Editorially, the Journal warned against use of the drug for minor ills, wondered whether it might have to be limited to such serious complaints as typhoid. The Food & Drug Administration started checking all new cases of aplastic anemia to see whether Chloromycetin had been used...
...near Buffalo) at what she calls "an early age." Pressed, she will concede that it was quite a while ago: she admits to being 40. Her father was an electrician whose job of stringing telephone wires carried him around the country. When Lucille was four, he died of typhoid in Wyandotte, Mich...