MICE WERE GIVEN PNEUMONIA
AND NOW IT CAN BE CURED FOR 9s Six hundred and ninety-two families of mice were given pneumonia and died; before a London bacteriologist, who Avas treating them with experimental compounds, discovered one "which can cure pneumonia for nine shillings. AVorking" in the London laboratory of a firm of manufacturing chemists, Dr Lionel Whitby, bacteriologist to the Middlesex Hospital, tried again. As if by magic the 693 rd family of dying mice revived. Thus it is that pneumonia, and the conditions caused by the coccus associated with that disease— cerebral spinal-meningitis (spotted fever) and the dreaded social diseases —have all become amenable to 693, a treatment which is at once cheap, simple and comparatively painless. To-day 693 (sulphapyridine) is saving the lives of many-thousands of British soldiers, sailors and" airmen while the man who discovered it is quietly serving as a colonel in charge of blood transfusions.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 284, 17 March 1941, Page 6
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151MICE WERE GIVEN PNEUMONIA Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 284, 17 March 1941, Page 6
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