Word: antibioticized
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The accountant had a stormy course for almost a year. He had received no X rays or chemicals in advance to suppress the body's tendency to reject a graft from anyone other than an identical twin. For this job the Brigham doctors had decided to rely on drugs...
> Wilms's tumor, a cancer that attacks the kidneys of children and is often fatal, is yielding to new treatment. Reporting at the Cancer Society seminar, Dr. Sidney Farber of Children's Hospital in Boston said that radiotherapy and surgery had previously been effective in 40% of cases...
>Every batch of every antibiotic for use in man must be tested by government laboratories. Under the old law, some antibiotics were so tested, but not all. > Every plant in which a drug is manufactured or processed in any way will now have to be registered with FDA, inspected at...
After the war, Commercial Solvents concentrated on antibiotic drugs, but made fewer discoveries than its competitors; its fortunes fell from 1947 sales of $55 million to $33 million in 1949. So the company concentrated on producing industrial and agricultural chemicals.
Chloromycetin. which is Parke. Davis' trade name for the potent antibiotic chloramphenicol. got FDA approval in 1949. It attacked many bacteria against which penicillin was useless, notably the typhoid bacillus; equally important, it was the first effective drug against psittacosis (caused by an unusually large virus) and against such...