Exploring Technology in a Wizard World

Chapter 356 - 356 355 Sulfonamide Bacitracin and Stone

?Chapter 356: Chapter 355: Sulfonamide, Bacitracin, and Stone Chapter 356: Chapter 355: Sulfonamide, Bacitracin, and Stone “In the current Wizard World similar to the Medieval era, trying to treat pneumonia with penicillin is very difficult,” Richard thought. “Moreover, penicillin can only kill some bacteria and has almost no effect on fungi, so it’s best to discard this idea.”

So, if not penicillin, what else?

The answer to this question is—sulfonamide.

Penicillin was the first antimicrobial drug discovered in the world and it is the most widely used antimicrobial drug on modern Earth, but it was not the first antimicrobial drug to be used on a large scale.

In the 1930s—Penicillin was discovered, but while its production was still being increased, sulfonamide drugs had already been used clinically to effectively treat infections caused by Hemolytic Streptococcus.

Over the next decade, sulfonamide drugs developed rapidly, and by the 1940s, hundreds of different sulfonamide drugs had been manufactured.

In the early years of World War II (1939-1945), sulfonamide drugs were common medicines used by the military to treat infections. The US Army’s first aid kits included sulfonamide powder and sulfonamide pills; sprinkling sulfonamide powder on wounds could inhibit infections, and taking sulfonamide pills orally could address gangrene and pneumonia.

Hmm, pneumonia.

Sulfonamide drugs saved many lives during the war, including notables such as Franklin D. Roosevelt’s son, as well as Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister, who had pneumonia.

Thus, however one looks at it, in the unreliability of penicillin, sulfonamide is indeed the real lifesaver.

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