Word: aureomycin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...antibiotic-perhaps any drug used to kill bacteria-might cause this disorder said Dr. Weiss, but most often to blame are the "broad-spectrum" antibiotics such as aureomycin, terramycin, Chloromycetin. The doctor may be using these wisely against an infection for which they are known to be effective, or unwisely against virus" diseases in which they are not likely to be of any use. Either way the antibiotics kill off many of the bacteria normally found in a healthy intestinal tract. In so doing, they disturb the balance of nature and leave the depopulated gut as a breeding ground...
...intestine is not the only organ troubled by the Monilia fungus. This microorganism was first found in the throat (in cases of thrush), also occurs regularly in the vagina. Many women who take aureomycin or related antibiotics develop a stubborn inflammation of the vagina and perineal region. Sometimes the organism spreads over large areas and reaches the lungs or brain heart or kidneys. There have been cases in which a child's entire body has been covered with itchy inflammation. In treating such cases of moniliasis, still another antibiotic has been found to help undo the harm wrought...
PATENT PIRACY by a Japanese drug firm has been stopped, at least for the time being. In Japan's most important patent decision since World War II, a Tokyo court ordered the powerful Meiji Seika company to stop manufacturing aureomycin without permission from American Cyanamid. The court rejected the local firm's contention that it had discovered a new type of aureomycin in mud and that it should be allowed to continue production for "special reasons," i.e., nationalism...
...pernicious anemia, and through the work of Bacteriologist John Enders, laid the groundwork for a safe polio vaccine. One scientist, the late Edwin J. Cohn (TIME, Oct. 12), made the blood bank possible; another, Chemist Robert Woodward, developed a theory that may lead to the synthesis of terramycin and aureomycin...
...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 was also plenty of talk of deleterious effects. Boston's Dr. Ethan Allan Brown called today's enthusiastic but haphazard use of antibiotics "appalling." It is misleading, he said, to speak only of patients whose deaths are recorded as resulting from reactions to antibiotics. There are more deaths, said...