To test this hypothesis these workers administered sulfanilamide, a specific inhibitor of carbonic anhydrase, 2 to dogs, presumably inhibiting the formation of carbonic acid in the renal parenchyma.

Only since February 1935 has the drug sulfanilamide been known. In the past three years it has proven so useful as a treatment for “coccus” infections (streptococcus, gonococcus, meningococcus ...

Read at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society, Boston, June 2, 1938. From the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Second and Fourth Medical Services (Harvard), Boston City Hospital ...

In 1937, the antibiotic Elixir Sulfanilamide killed more than 100 Americans. “The first time I ever had occasion to call in a doctor for [Joan] ... she was given Elixir of Sulfanilamide ...