Show Steals Show v at Medical Meet Kills Germs New Chemical Remedy Combats Many l Diseases By JANE STAFFORD Atlantic City N. N J. J Pron J.-Pron- Pron t tosil osil new chemical remedy that ts t that hat has already saved thousands thousands thou thou- s sands ands of lives and promises t to o conquer four of mankind's major germ enemies held t the he spotlight at the meeting o of f the American Medical association association as as- s here This red dye and arid its chemical relative relative rel rel- a live sulfanilamide were the most important I and most talked-of talked subjects subjects sub sub- Ij j on the program and around t the he convention hall hail They even stole a place on the e program from an older remedy Latest disease to go down before the llie attack of or sulfanilamide is pye- pye litis serious and troublesome urinary urinary uri uri- un- un nary tract infection for which there thereas h has as hitherto been no very successful successful success success- f ful ul treatment Sulfanilamide Treatments Cases of which were completely completely com corn cleared up by treatment with s sulfanilamide were reported by Dr I Henry F. F Helmholz of the Mayo I c clinic clinic- Rochester Minn This was the first report of the use of the new chemical remedy for tills this dis din ease Doctor Helmholz was to have reported reported reported re re- re- re ported results of treatments with acid but his results with s sulfanilamide were so much better and so spectacular that he made madea a minute last-minute change in his paper i in n order to report the t treatment Meningitis including the particular l lar ar deadly variety due to streptococcus cus infection of the brain membranes membranes membranes mem mem- branes as well as pneumonia gonorrhea gonorrhea gon gon- childbed fever and other diseases caused by streptococcus infection in in- f all yield to treatment with s sulfanilamide or on pronto ll Reports of hundreds of similar cases are now ready for publication i in n the Journal of the American MedIcal Medical Med Med- I ical cal Association the editor Dr Morris Morris Morris Mor Mor- ris Fishbein declared Chemical Checks s Cocci The chemical is not an antiseptic and does not kill the disease germs I Its ts action apparently Is to keep the germs from growing and multiplying multiply multiply- ing ng i In the patients patient's body The body's own fighting forces are consequently consequent consequent- l ly y able to overcome the infection and the patient recovers Sulfanilamide is apparently particularly particularly par- par effective in checking the growth of the round germs of the great family These include include in in- clude elude streptococci and gonococci These bacteria are the causes of Type III pneumonia for which there has been no such satisfactory serum treatment as there is in Types II If and I streptococcal meningitis which up to now has always been fatal childbed fever which has killed thousands of mothers every year in spite of all efforts to check it and the distressing and painful disease erysipelas All have now been successfully treated by sulfanilamide sulfanilamide sul- sul or This new chemical remedy was developed by br a German chemist A. A It was first brought to the attention of physicians generally by bythe bythe bythe the English doctors Leonard Colebrooke Colebrooke Colebrooke Cole- Cole brooke and Meave Kenny Its first use in the United States was by Drs Perrin Long and Eleanor Bliss of Johns Hopkins university Doctors Doctors Doc Doe tors tons Bliss and Long told the meeting meeting meeting meet meet- ing of precautions necessary in the use of the remedy |