Word: antibioticized
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Aspirin & Sophistication. In the U.S., such old favorites as Hill's Cascara Quinine (Whitehall Pharmacal Co.) and Bromo Quinine (Grove Laboratories, Inc.) retain a faithful but shrinking following. They have been crowded to the side of druggists' counters by supposedly more sophisticated products of the antibiotic, antihistamine age...
Customers often ask for antibiotics. Instead of explaining that no antibiotic does any good against virus infections, druggists usually tell them they need a prescription. (Virtually the only antibiotic preparations not on prescription are tablets containing small amounts, for sore throats.) They then generally recommend aspirin in one of the...
Among the minor ills that bring discomforts to man, few are so persistent or so hard to treat as fungus infections-the cause of ringworm (including the stubborn ringworm of the nails), barber's itch, athlete's foot, and jockstrap itch. Last week 300 specialists in fungus infections...
While griseofulvin, taken by mouth, has proved remarkably successful against external fungal infections, most researchers have reported it useless against internal (systemic) infections. Mexico's Dr. Antonio González-Ochoa worried about this, tried griseofulvin against several deep-seated fungal infections. In all but one it failed. The...
On seven wards they put an outright ban on all the most cherished antibiotics (penicillin, streptomycin, three tetracyclines, chloramphenicol, erythromycin and novobiocin) unless the doctors could show that one of these drugs was unquestionably the best for the patient's disease. Then they had to give their first-choice...