Synergic Action of Penicillin and Sulphathiazole in Gonorrhoea

Synergic action of penicillin and sulphathiazole in gonorrhea.

The control of venereal diseases in rural areas presents certain problems and difficulties not met with in the city. The County of Cornwall, with which this paper deals, has a scattered population of 322,500. No industrial areas exist, but there are some half dozen market towns and small seaports each with from ten to sixteen thousand inhabitants. Five clinics for the treatment of venereal dise...

Penicillin resistance in gonorrhoea.

The incidence of gonorrhoea in Great Britain reached its peak in 1946, one year after the second World War had ended. Thereafter it declined sharply and continued to do so until 1955, when for the first time since the war the Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Ministry of Health (1957) indicated an increase in the number of patients with'gonorrhoea attending the clinics. The rise...

Typhoid Fever in Children Treated with Penicillin and Sulphathiazole

more and better penicillin we should come to the stage of attacking it successfully. Bigger's (1946) researches showed that penicillin and sulphathiazole when used together exert a synergic action on Bad. typhosum. In consequence of this research McSweeney (1946) treated six cases of typhoid fever in adults with full doses of sulphathiazole and large doses of penicillin with apparently remarkab...

Penicillin treatment of gonorrhoea in Edinburgh.

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 ...