Weil's Disease in Normandy: Penicillin Treatment

Early treatment with parenteral penicillin in meningococcal disease.

OBJECTIVE To measure the effect of parenteral antibiotics given before admission to hospital on mortality and on bacteriological investigations in meningococcal disease. DESIGN Retrospective review of hospital notes and laboratory and public health medicine department records. SETTING Three health districts in south west England. SUBJECTS Patients with meningococcal disease in Gloucester ...

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...

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...

[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...

Treatment of Carbuncle with Penicillin