Medical Aspects of Penicillin Treatment

MEDICAL ASPECTS OF ISLAMIC FASTING

Some aspects of the chemistry of penicillin.

Some recent advances in the chemistry of penicillin are presented. The group of antibiotics known as the penicillins have a unique position in chemistry. Not only were they the first type of antibiotic to be widely accepted in medical practice, but their chemistry proved to be of unusual interest and complexity. Modem fermentation plants have reduced the cost of the penicillins such that one sh...

Clinical Aspects of Penicillin Failure in Gonorrhoea.

an aqueous or oily suspension of procaine penicillin or of procaine penicillin in oil with 2 per cent. aluminium monostearate (PAM). Today 2 4 mega units is a not unusual dose. In Sheffield we have not yet arrived at this exalted twist of the spiral. In 1960 the routine dose was increased to 0-6 mega units of aqueous procaine penicillin, but with a relapse rate which is again rising it behoves ...

Ethical Aspects of Breast Cancer Treatment

According to a universal consensus and agreement, all diagnostic, curative and rehabilitative medical intervention and biomedical research on patients as human participants, including those related to breast disease and breast cancer, must be performed in a morally acceptable manner. In other words, a medical decision would be “right” if it is ethically justifiable. Similar to diagn...

[Penicillin treatment of syphilis].

JAMA. 1944;126(2):63-67, 67-73, 73-80. In the follow-up to a preliminary report on the use of penicillin for early syphilis, Mahoney and colleagues presented the promising posttreatment observations of the original patients studied for periods in excess of 300 days. They also reported information on the treatment of an additional 100 patients. The accompanying papers in the same issue of JAMA r...