YOUR HEALTH: HERE'S HOW!
Stafford, Jane
YOUR HEALTH: Here's How! By JANE STAFFORD PHYSICIANS in the year 1910. according to the Journal of the American Medical Association, listed the 10 most important drugs used in medicine in the...
...All cases of bacterial endocarditis in which the heart trouble is due to germs susceptible to penicillin...
...For the month of April, the civilian allocation will be increased to 150,000,000,000 units...
...Cottage Cheese As Meat Substitute With the new rationing regulations, housewives are again called on to exercise ingenuity in planning the family's meals...
...digitalis...
...and vitamins...
...5. Meningitis, pleurisy, and endocarditis due to pneumococci and all sulfa-drug-resistant pneumococ-cic pneumonia...
...Cheese, eggs, and fish will be in good supply, according to the U. S. Department of Agriculture...
...Between that date and Apr...
...Maybe you would rather sink your teeth into a beefsteak than an omelette, and maybe you think a bowl of cottage cheese is a feeble substitute for the Sunday roast...
...2. All cases of Clostridia infections, which includes gas gangrene...
...immunizing agents and specific antitoxins and vaccines...
...ether and other anesthetics such as morphine, cocaine, and the barbituric acid derivatives which the layman knows chiefly as sleeping tablets...
...Where Penicillin Will Help Even though there is now enough penicillin for general civilian use as well as for the armed forces, there is not enough of it to waste any...
...Penicillin Now Available WASHINGTON—A hundred and thirty billion units of penicillin, or about 6,500,000 doses of the life-saving mold chemical, were rushed to the nation's drug stores, hospitals and drug supply houses for civilians—beginning Mar...
...Penicillin was put first in most of the answers, but other antibiotic drugs were added and the sulfa drugs came very close to penicillin...
...Today, the editor of the Journal says, a list of the most important remedies might be: penicillin and the sulfa drugs and antibiotics...
...other hormones...
...whole blood, blood plasma, and blood derivatives (these would include gamma globulin for protection against measles, fibrin films and foams to aid the surgeon, and albumin for shock) ; quinine and qui-nacrine...
...Cheese, eggs, and fish are all protein foods, like meat and poultry, and they furnish the same good quality protein...
...Experience with over 5,000 cases which have been carefully studied under the auspices of the National Research Council and the Office of Scientific Research and Development show that penicillin is good for the following conditions: 1. All staphylococcic infections with and without blood stream involvement including acute and chronic osteomyelitis, carbuncles and soft tissue abscesses, meningitis, cavernous or lateral sinus thrombosis, pneumonia, empyema, carbuncle of the kidney, wound infections, burns, and endocarditis (a form of heart disease...
...arsphenamines...
...8. All eases of chronic pulmonary suppuration in which operations are contemplated...
...7. All cases of anthrax...
...This is more than three times as much as has ever been released for an entire month by WPB's civilian penicillin distribution unit in Chicago...
...This should relieve worries over the meat and poultry situation...
...6. All gonococcic infections, including those complicated by arthritis, eye trouble, endocarditis, peritonitis, and epididymitis...
...After that, monthly allocations are expected to be increased each month...
...ia-sulin and liver extract...
...From 5,000 to 40,000 units are needed in each injection, depending on the illness...
...Nutritionally, however, they have just about the same value...
...according to the Journal of the American Medical Association, listed the 10 most important drugs used in medicine in the following order: ether, morphine, digitalis, diphtheria antitoxin, smallpox vaccine, iron, quinine, iodine, alcohol, and mercury...
...1, a total of 130,000,-000,000 units will be available for civilian use by War Production Board allocation...
...Influenza, tularemia, undulant fever, tuberculosis, acute rheumatic fever, acute and chronic leukemia, malaria, infantile paralysis, virus infections, and cancer are listed, along with a number of less familiar ailments, as conditions for which penicillin should not be used because it does not have any effect...
...The nation's airlines are carrying large quantities of the life-saving chemical, which must be kept at a temperature of 50 degrees Fahrenheit or less...
...The list was made after questioning some of the professors of medicine in leading medical schools...
...9. All meningoeoecic infections in which sulfa drugs fail...
...Use of the precious mold chemical in conditions which it does not remedy would be a waste...
...3. All hemolytic streptococcic infections with invasion of the germs into the blood and all serious local infections...
...Such a tremendous advance has been made in treatment of disease that it is almost impossible, the medical editor says, to list 10 individual remedies as the 10 most important or useful...
...4. Childbed fever and local infections due to anaerobic infections...
Vol. 9 • March 1945 • No. 13
