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By the record, he was right. As the convention proceeded, there were optimistic reports of a new antibiotic, tetracycline (like aureomycin but with hydrogen replacing a chlorine atom in the molecule), and of a multibiotic. a triple-threat combination of streptomycin, bacitracin and polymyxin, for external use only. But there...
The world's top authorities on antibiotics met in Washington last week to exchange their latest findings, and the University of Illinois' Dr. Harry F. Dowling sounded the keynote: "As each antibiotic is introduced, we hear first of miraculous cures, second of deleterious reactions, and third of the...
During the 13 years, said Dr. McCormick, there was no major change in hospital equipment. Improved results, he believes, are "due mainly to an increased familiarity with the disease, influenced to a lesser degree by the use of antibiotic and hormonal therapy."
Meanwhile, in West Germany's Bayer Institute for Experimental Pathology, other researchers read his reports on the drug's selective toxin. Directed by another Nobel Prizewinner, Professor Gerhard Domagk, the Germans took up where Waksman left off. Working with fungus cultures, they isolated actinomycin C, a new form...
Tree Doctor. Chas. Pfizer & Co. of Brooklyn has developed a new antibiotic drug* for trees and plants that cures such previously fatal plant diseases as fire blight (in apple and pear trees) and halo blight (in beans). Agrimycin, a compound of streptomycin and terramycin, is absorbed into the plants'...