Word: antibioticized
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Where They Come From. Why has the staph menace grown so great? Part of it is relative: other germs, once equally common and deadly, have been tamed. Part of it is that physicians, surgeons and hospital staffs have become too confident: relying on their antibiotics, they are careless about general...
The patient had been nauseated and suffering from diarrhea. At the clinic in Pasadena, Calif. Dr. Norman L. McBride took a blood sample, and analysis showed an abnormally high count of white cells. Dr. McBride suspected an infection of the patient's womb, put her under anesthesia and opened...
Working at a U.S. Army hospital in Augsburg, West Germany, Major Vernon M. Smith put one drop of standard penicillin solution inside the lower eyelid of his subjects, and another drop on a light scratch made on the arm with a hypodermic needle. If within 20 minutes the eye did...
CLAIM: when a patient's life is in danger, and there has not been time to identify the disease-causing bacteria, two or more drugs provide insurance. ANSWER: this is true only if both are used in full doses-the danger is that in a fulminating infection a patient...
CLAIM: a second antibiotic may delay the emergence of bacteria which are resistant to the first antibiotic. ANSWER: this may be true in-test tubes, but generally there is no proof that it works in human patients.