EXTRACTS FROM REPORT ON THE THIRD CONFERENCE EAST OF CONSULTING SPECIALISTS ON 24 TO 26 MAY 1943 AT THE MILITARY MEDICAL ACADEMY, BERLIN
5. SS Gruppenfuehrer and Major General, Professor Gebhardt, and F. Fischer.
Special Experiments on Sulfanilamide Treatment
CONCLUSIONS
“1. The development of suppuration on the soft parts caused by bacteriae cannot be prevented, even if sulfanilamides are applied immediately, locally, or internally.
“2. It could not be proved that the course of an inflammatory illness caused by aerobic organisms on abscesses and phlegmons of the limbs was influenced by sulfanilamides. We were of the impression that combined gas gangrene therapy took a milder course under the influence of sulfanilamides.
“3. Surgical measures are indispensable for a successful treatment of inflammations.”
Additional Remarks
The sprinkling of sulfanilamide powder on wounds can be injurious, if, by so doing, the fundamentals of surgery are infringed, if, for instance, the powder basis is not dissolved by the tissue fluids, and if the discharge of secretions is hampered by coagulation. The wounds treated with sulfanilamide powder show a slight tendency to exudation.