¶ In less than two years sulfanilamide has cured thousands of streptococcic infections of various types, including streptococcic septicemia (blood poisoning), streptococcic sore throat ...

Only since February 1935 has the drug sulfanilamide been known. In the past three years it has proven so useful as a treatment for "coccus" infections (streptococcus, gonococcus, ...

Sulfanilamide was administered in amounts (4 to 6 gm. per day) that were designed to keep the serum level at about 12 mg. per 100 cc. The patients were weighed at the same time each day.

Ackman and Wilson, 4,5 also in 1942, described an oil-in-water emulsion base for a sulfonamide that, according to their observations, not only ensures constant delivery of the sulfonamide from the ...

Better still, sulfanilamide was … Even today, being stricken with pneumonia, meningitis or strep throat is serious, but in the early 20th century these bacterial infections were killers.

The story of Elixir Sulfanilamide starts with the German dye industry. Paul Ehrlich, the visionary doctor who invented the first reliable treatment of syphilis, started his career by working on ...

LETHAL LIQUID: In 1937, the S.E. Massengill Company of Bristol, Tennessee, began selling bottles of Elixir Sulfanilamide, a liquid version of a popular antibiotic of the day. But more than 100 people ...