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Researchers at the University of California have found that there are about as many cases of antagonism between the drugs as there are of cooperation. By & large, they report, any two of four antibiotics in Group I-penicillin, streptomycin, bacitracin and neomycin-work well together. Except in rare cases, however...
Other companies did, and got into penicillin faster. But Merck got a head start with the next antibiotic, streptomycin. When Rutgers' Dr. Selman Waksman found that his beloved soil bacteria had made something that killed many germs which penicillin did not affect, he took the culture to Rahway. Though...
¶ In the A.M.A. Journal, three groups of doctors reported fatal cases (eight in all) of aplastic anemia following treatment with the antibiotic Chloromycetin. Editorially, the Journal warned against use of the drug for minor ills, wondered whether it might have to be limited to such serious complaints as typhoid...
¶ Doctors who have given aureomycin credit for killing some of the tiny viruses as well as the bigger bacteria may have been on the wrong track. Actually, it seems to work this way: the golden antibiotic checks 'bacteria and also reduces fever, but in a case of virus...
Penicillin, the first of the antibiotic wonder drugs, is now a drug on the market. In the past few months, the manufacturer's price has been cut in half to less than 2? per 100,000 units in bulk. The case of penicillin was a fine example of how...