The Use of Sulphanilamide in Streptococcic Dermatoses.

TheBritish Journal of Dermatology: the interwar years

“…The aggressive nature of this bacterial skin infection was apparent from the clinical reports and graphic photographs of these cases, managed in the prepenicillin era. In 1939 a case series published in the BJD&S described six patients with severe streptococcal skin infections treated with sulfanilamide; this was one of the first reports of antibiotic treatment for skin infection …”