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Thirteenth Annual Review of Significant Publications

HOBART A. REIMANN, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1947;80(4):514-559.

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Papers published during the past year dealing with infectious diseases contain no spectacular report such as readers have become accustomed to expect in recent times. Except for encouraging effects of streptomycin in tuberculosis, the synthesis of penicillin, information that under certain conditions both penicillin and streptomycin actually stimulate bacterial growth and the inhibiting effect of certain other antibiotics on neoplastic cells, studies in the field of antibiotics have been in the nature of odds and ends. The sulfonamide compounds are found to be of less and less use and are obsolete for many conditions. Interest in viral hepatitis and viral pneumonia has waned apparently in proportion to the decrease in the incidence of these infections consistent with the natural rise and fall of epidemic diseases. A new rickettsial disease was discovered in New York city.

The feasibility of biologic warfare based on facts and theory at hand up to 1942 . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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From the Jefferson Medical College and Hospital.

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