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• n  a white odorless crystalline sulfa drug; the parent compound of most of the sulfa drugs

• Newest member of the rapidly growing sulfanilamide family is a little number called N dodecanoylsulfanilamide.
• Sulfanilamide tablets and injections work wonders with gonorrhea, meningitis and various streptococcic diseases.
• Only since February 1935 has the drug sulfanilamide been known.