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sulfapyridine

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[suhl-fuh-pir-i-deen, -din] / ˌsʌl fəˈpɪr ɪˌdin, -dɪn /

noun

Pharmacology.
  1. a sulfanilamide derivative, C 1 1 H 1 1 N 3 O 2 S, formerly used for infections caused by pneumococci, now used primarily for a particular dermatitis.


Etymology

Origin of sulfapyridine

sulfa(nilamide) + pyridine

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The cases: >A 15-year-old boy with a bad streptococcic infection of the hip showed no improvement after large doses of sulfanilamide and sulfapyridine.

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To combat the pneumococci, he gave the baby injections of the remarkable new drug sulfapyridine.

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Yet, the baby, instead of dying, "showed marked improvement . . . within 24 hours," and in a few days the sulfapyridine conquered flu germs as well as pneumococci.

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Harvard's Drs. David Weinman and Robert Berne have proved that sulfapyridine cures the disease in 95 out of 100 mice even in very late stages of the disease.

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They covered him with an oxygen tent, inoculated him with pneumonia serum, fed him the famed pneumonia specific, sulfapyridine.

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