Medicine: Staphylococcus Conquered?

A friend of Dr. Ralph Robertson Mellon in Pittsburgh lay dying from blood poisoning caused by streptococcus. In despair, Dr. Mellon gave him a dose of prontosil (sulfanilamide), a German drug never before tried on human beings in the U. S. To his joy, the dying man made a rapid recovery. That was three years ago.

Last fortnight, before the Southern Medical Association meeting in Memphis, Dr. Grayson Lewis Carroll of St. Louis

University told a similar tale, one which may possibly prove as significant to medical history as Dr. Mellon's. As violent as the...