The drugs administered to 17 patients included chloroquine, novalgin, paraldehyde, procaine penicillin ... with foot drop had had recent IM injections in the buttock. An additional 20 patients ...

Penicillin G benzathine 600,000 units/mL ... Give by deep IM inj into upper outer quadrant of buttock; rotate inj sites. Upper respiratory Group A strep: 1.2 million units once.