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Report of Two Cases

MAJOR ABRAHAM SCHULTZ

Arch Ophthal. 1946;35(2):145-149.

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SINCE the clinical introduction of penicillin by Abraham and associates¹ for the treatment of systemic and local infections, the serious toxic manifestations of this drug have been remarkably few. Keefer and associates² encountered relatively mild untoward reactions in 69 (13.8 per cent) of their series of 500 patients treated systemically with penicillin. Of this group, urticaria occurred in 14 patients, chills and fever in 17 and localized thrombophlebitis in 19. All the reactions were transitory and did not require cessation of the drug therapy. Sensitivity to penicillin was not evident, even though several patients had repeated prolonged courses. Lyons³ reported that urticaria was the most common complication in his group, occurring in 5.7 per cent of the 209 patients treated systemically with penicillin. He attributed these reactions to toxic impurities rather than to the active penicillin fraction. He found that thrombophlebitis, which often occurred at the site . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
MEDICAL CORPS, ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES

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