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ACCORDING to the U.S. Office of the Surgeon General, a saving of 90 out of 100 soldiers from death by meningitis has been achieved by sulphadiazine. The death-rate from meningitis in the U.S. Army in the present War is less than 3 per cent, whereas it was 93·2 per cent in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars and 39·2 per cent in the War of 1914–18. According to the U.S. Army Commission on Meningitis, as little as two grams of sulphadiazine will banish the germs from the nose and throat of most persons for a period of several weeks.
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Sulphadiazine Treatment of Meningitis. Nature 154, 360 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154360b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/154360b0