Treatment of Typhoid Fever with Chloromycetin

IN THE summer of 1949, 4 patients with typhoid fever were admitted to Belmont Hospital. All were treated with Chloromycetin. One patient (Case 4), a forty-four-year-old woman who died less than forty-eight hours after admission, had other conditions that were responsible for her death. The other 3 cases responded dramatically to Chloromycetin.The first patient had an acute attack of typhoid fever. The second patient was the sister of the first and was asymptomatic; this case was discovered as a result of routine stool examinations. The third patient had been treated previously at another hospital and had a relapse of . . .