Penicillin Treatment

[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...

Practical Points in Penicillin Treatment

?ay u. t. tseaumont, D.m. (oxon.), F.R.C.f. (Lond.). and K. N. V. Palmer, M.B. (Cantab.). M.R.C.P. (Lond.)' J. and A. Churchill Limited, London. Pp. 16. Price, 1s. 6d. This brochure is issued for the benefit ' of doctors who have not had the opportunity of studying the administration of penicillin in hospitalAlthough not comprehensive it gives useful information. A difference of opinion may exi...

Treatment of Carbuncle with Penicillin

Practical Points in Penicillin Treatment

This is the second edition of a pamphlet issued last year and reviewed in this journal. New matter covering a page and a half has been introduced. Two doses of 250,000 units of penicillin in water, one in the morning and one in the evening, have also been recommended, instead of the 3-hourly administration. The rest of the account appears to be the same. The two categories of diseases, one in w...

Side-effects of penicillin treatment.

In comparison with the many millions of injections of penicillin given annually all over the world, the incidence of reported reactions to the drug is small. Untoward effects vary from simple discomfort at the site of injection to sudden death (Kern and Wimberley, 1953; Welch, Lewis, Kerlan, and Putnam, 1953). The amount and duration of pain at the injection site may vary with the technical ski...