1932

Using crude penicillin (“mould juice”), Sheffield pathologist C. G. Paine cures two cases of gonococcal conjunctivitis and one case of staphylococcal conjunctivitis in newborn babies and “achieved something of a clinical triumph” with a colliery managed with a penetrating injury of his right eye: irrigation with crude penicillin cleared up the infection permitting surgery to remove the foreign body (Macfarlane, 164). British physician Ranyard West reports on use of minute doses of curare to treat patients with tetanus and other muscular disorders (Dowling, 42).