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Penicillin of Value%In Many Diseases*/ lOGASClZSWSlSG. 31* 0.THIS COLUMN bu tU'iyi , lr3rd to be eeeaerrativ* and to will v;nUl any rew rtttedy bat been properly tested before making an; :*lt;*Um*as about it. tt'# tt*jr mi** yotriB aeniaUonal sl©rl« ihai way, but we *J»o avoid fooJU* our wader* with false hope*. In the caw of peneilliDj we can no*' wake ft •Ute.MiL[t would tore been V-rjr *illj ,k juafct a aews paper annoucce-**ftt any aoc*n*r, because for tht ftfiHff *oiioii the drug bn not iM*fi atttlaik *r*n i/ {be JndJra-tkiB* llt;* lU us* wire plain. A jAyifcU* with dm of th* Ur pest practice* o* tt« Wert Cont, , Vr,own n medical citefc?* told methe other day that be had a patient who wu In hi* opinion an Weal caw for penicillin and wrote for aoaw: he received a re pi T that hii application had been put an hit, feat £hst it »w improbable ihat *1 would be available for general mm for about six week*.1‘rakiBiji a FPenicillin (It U pronounced, I under stand, aa il ysM wart goia* to *ay **fr«tfcrilH and bad a statUrl, to make a brief fu«u**ry d lta •t»iu3, is a maid, or fufcfsi. H it uied much a» the auHa droft ara Hied to atop the grewth of gersis ati tofaction in the body, only lb« gcr«s it af«ti *r« dlferent froa those *i,'3in*t which the lutfa drugs are *o eflec’.iro. It is etpe-■r 3 illy food on «©ur.d« and born a. TiTar wounds treated In a Utah Urtr.T hospital have shown phenera* eerily good reiulta. Penicillin U not really a bratdnew drug. In 120 an Kng}Uk EcUntls\r Dr, A. Fleming, wu working in hi* laboratory with cut* larei of iUphylooxcuf, Ifce f«M that ©fun t*uM* biooi polaMhLC and wound infeetfcw. H« wu growing it ©n boallJon, much like Vibit you uie for asup, and he found ©o lha surface of «*me of the collwcf a exactly tht uv.e »i tha little mold oo fled cn dimn bread. Bat h« made the further discovery that in lh«ft* cultures when the penicilftfi had formed, all the itarhylococclc ttjxit In the brolh had died off, or failed U grow.Thatii the *!mplefi«i ihat «« taken -up and rediscovered fuit ♦Ma year, g*Wn* w a ttw germicide.In* f#c CwakU*ft d irfer* *©m*»faat fjom the lulfa drugs in that it has to bo given U the vein and «nUauo:ulF far *e*«r*l hoar* or days.But it works also by direct application. At the UUijfcw infirmary a au wber of Kwrtt hums were tueemfuMy Uealed by appU*n?r peak 111 In credm to rhc wouri'i. it %Ue workt aoraetimes when lb* w.lfa drugs fail.Th* list of dif*aifi in. whkh It ba*proT*d aa«ess£ul,ot r»*enlik-#*ricjt, are tor.e infect inn BiyetiilO, hlooi poiwnlng. rr.rnln-giii*, pneumonia, jss ytiKrcr^— the Infection «ble£ used ta bill “ many wounded soldier*, milk kg UeJlulitbl, ca'rbur.elcj, burns ar.d »ll cafcnr.tr of irdccted vroanda.This is rmj j tompleie ISjL bat it give* an Idea of what the field for thl» r.*w wor.der-worker is.
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Oil City, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, Oct 19, 1943
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