Word: antibioticized
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The best treatment, doctors now believe, calls for injections of streptomycin into the spinal fluid as well as the muscles. Because some tubercle bacilli develop resistance to the antibiotic, the patients are also given para-aminosalicylic acid (TIME, Jan. 2, 1950).
CORPORATIONS Wonder Drugs' Wonder In the new world of antibiotic wonder drugs, one of the wonders is the growth of the industry itself. In only eight years, it has become a $250-million-a-year business supplying drugs for half of all doctors' prescriptions. Among the industry'...
When streptomycin was found in a shovelful of New Jersey dirt (TIME, Jan. 29, 1945), Pfizer added it to its line, while continuing a search for an antibiotic of its own. Since no one ever knows where a new antibiotic will be turned up (the purest penicillin strain was discovered...
An Oporto doctor gave Branca Maria an injection of Varidase, and waited to see what would happen. (The theory is that the enzymes help to dissolve clotted pus, enable an antibiotic such as streptomycin to go to work on the germs without interference.) Within 45 minutes, Branca Maria took some...
¶ Canaigre (Rumex hymenosepalus), also known as wild rhubarb, long recognized as a source of fine tannic acids. High on the critical materials list during World War II, most tannin is still imported. Canaigre also gives starches and sugars which ferment to alcohol, might provide an antibiotic effective against some...