Penicillin in the Treatment of Diphtheria and the Diphtheria Carrier State

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Abstract
THE importance of diphtheria has been reemphasized lately by experiences with the disease in foreign countries during the war and its aftermath and by slight but statistically significant increases in the prevalence of diphtheria in this country. The clinical manifestations and complications have been completely described in the older literature. An important aspect of the problem now being developed is the application of antibiotics in treatment. The value of penicillin in diphtheria has been established in extensive clinical trials by Karelitz et al.1 and by Weinstein.2 The following investigations confirm their findings in a series of 97 additional penicillin-treated cases . . .