Word: antibioticized
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The first antibiotic ever isolated by Nobel Prizewinner Selman Waksman was actinomycin. And just as Dr. Waksman hoped, the drug made strong medicine. It killed many man-killing microbes; unfortunately, it acted like a mankiller as well. It turned out to be a cytotoxin, a cell poison with the strange...
The era when sulfa drugs were the wonders of the medical world was quickly followed by the antibiotic age, and then came a time when hormones held the center of the medical stage. Next, thought some enthusiastic researchers, would come the age of enzymes-some of nature's complex...
At Chicago's Abbott Laboratories last week, researchers sat in fascination watching the first action film of a microorganism being killed by one of the new antibiotic wonder drugs. The drug, fumagillin, killed the amoeba which causes the dread amoebic dysentery (see MEDICINE) by making it explode.
Said Dr. Hardy: "It is a sad commentary on our professional integrity and honesty when antibiotic or chemotherapeutic agents are prescribed for an undefined illness in order to placate anxious parents and [allay] our own insecurity."
The new disease, discovered in an Army dependent by Colonel Ogden C. Bruton, is rare, fortunately, and is probably a byproduct of the antibiotic age. "Before the days of penicillin," said Dr. Janeway, "these patients must have succumbed to the extremely severe infections which either caused the condition or first...