Word: achromycin
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...million worth of drugs based on Cyanamid processes. Ironically, two major customers for the controversial drugs were the bargain-minded U.S. Defense Department and Veterans Administration, which together during the past two years bought $3,500,000 worth of two Italian-made antibiotics-which Cyanamid claims are its Achromycin and Aureomycin...
...Antibiotics, especially the "broad-spectrum" family (best-known trade names: Achromycin, Aureomycin, Terramycin) kill so many of the harmless bacteria normally found in the digestive tract that they let the more harmful bacteria run riot. A resulting inflammation of the intestines, which may be "a deadly disease"-is usually the doctor's fault...
What to Do? Most of the dangerous staph are immediately found to be resistant to penicillin and streptomycin. They show descending orders of resistance to the tetracyclines (Aureomycin, Terramycin, Achromycin) and chloramphenicol (Chloromycetin). Strains have emerged that show varying resistance to still newer antibiotics. Strangely, nobody knows exactly how severe the problem is because most deaths caused by staph are not so listed. If a patient admitted for heart surgery dies of a staph infection, his death is attributed to the original heart trouble. Example: in Seattle and surrounding King County, only four deaths...
...increasingly serious. Said one: "We have no explanation as yet. but it seems that the virus is now stronger than the previous week." Abandoning their now ineffective treatment of aspirin or linden-flower potion, health officials fought the virus, identified as "Japan 305," with such antibiotics as streptomycin and achromycin...
...nearly 100°. His friend and trip physician, Dr. Malcom Todd, made the diagnosis: weakened by a solid month's worry, strain and work, with only a day and a half of rest, Dick Nixon had a severe case of flu. Todd began dosing Nixon with Achromycin and Mysteclin, spraying his raw throat with cortisone and Pontocaine, urged him to slow down his 15,000-mile swing through the length and breadth of the U.S. More specifically, the doctor begged Nixon to cancel his speech that night in Salt Lake City-but Nixon refused...
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