Sulfa drugs

“One form of sulfa or another was now standard therapy against pneumonia, childbed fever, erysipelas, strep blood infections, and the most common kinds of meningitis. Sulfa stopped urinary tract infections, trachoma, chancroid, mastoiditis, otitis media, and a host of less common or less dangerous strep infections. Newer sulfas worked well against gonorrhea. Strep sore throat could be treated with some success; sulfa was especially good at preventing recurrences. Sulfa drugs were increasingly helpful against staphylococcal infections and dysentery. They did not work well, however, against bacterial diseases like typhoid fever, tuberculosis, anthrax, or cholera” (Hager, 244-245).