Word: antibioticized
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In Manhattan last week, honeymooning with his 40-year-old Greek bride, 71-year-old Sir Alexander vigorously defended his antibiotic. "[The trouble] is not that it makes the microbes resistant," he said, "but rather that some people become sensitive to it. The penicillin still works on the germs, but...
The ancients believed, says Dr. Philip, that mashed ticks were a useful aphrodisiac, and Pliny the Elder recommended tick blood as a depilatory and as a curative ointment. There may be something to this. Recent tick-workers have shown that ticks contain an antibiotic that inhibits the growth of many...
¶ Cortisone is extremely useful in many eye infections because it prevents scarring of the cornea, but it has no power to kill the germs. Now the Upjohn Co. has combined cortisone with the antibiotic neomycin, expects the two-way treatment to be especially valuable in pinkeye.
What complicates the job for doctors and laboratory workers is that a particular combination of drugs may work well against one kind of disease-causing microbe and be useless against another closely related microbe. Fortunately, the exceptional cases in which drugs from Groups I and II should be used together...
Even a single antibiotic can produce harmful (sometimes fatal) results if the doctor using it is not extremely alert. This was the case with Chloromycetin. The surest cure for typhoid fever, and one of the best drugs for Rocky Mountain spotted fever, brucellosis (undulant fever), typhus and some kinds of...