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As time goes by in this sulfonamide era it becomes increasingly obvious that a vast, ever increasing field in the future realm of therapy lies not in the operating room but in the chemistry laboratory, where the transmutation of metals is as naught compared with the evolution of ideas as they pass through the crucible of new interpretation. The case to be presented is one of Streptococcus viridans septicemia, proved by four positive blood cultures. The patient was discharged from the hospital cured, as evidenced by six negative blood cultures and by normal physical and laboratory examinations.REPORT OF CASEE. A., aged 20, a private in Battery F, 125th Field Artillery, 34th Division, whose general health had always been excellent, entered the Station Hospital, Camp Claiborne, Louisiana, on March 14, 1941, complaining of "flat feet." Two days later, during convalescence from a mild nasopharyngitis, there was an elevation of |
