Treatment of Bacterial Endocarditis

Abstract

ONE of the great triumphs of this era of chemotherapy and antibiotics has been achieved in the treatment of bacterial endocarditis. This disease, which before the introduction of the sulfonamides was almost universally fatal, affords an undisputed demonstration of the life-saving properties of the antibacterial agents, penicillin standing out as by far the most impressive of the agents thus far available. Many articles in the medical literature attest to the limited value of sulfonamides and to the striking clinical effects and reduction in mortality attributable to penicillin in the treatment of large numbers of cases.It is not the purpose . . .