Word: aureomycin
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Physician Travell easily diagnosed the ailment as a respiratory infection caused by what she called "the two-days' virus." Fearful that the President's back injury would weaken his resistance, she gave her patient an oral dose of tetracycline (aureomycin under another name), a whopping intramuscular shot of penicillin (1.2 million units, or at least three times what most doctors would have prescribed for an otherwise healthy adult). She also gave him an extra dose of the corticosteroids he regularly takes to compensate for his longstanding adrenal insufficiency. The fever rose to a high...
...Antibiotics, especially the "broad-spectrum" family (best-known trade names: Achromycin, Aureomycin, Terramycin) kill so many of the harmless bacteria normally found in the digestive tract that they let the more harmful bacteria run riot. A resulting inflammation of the intestines, which may be "a deadly disease"-is usually the doctor's fault...
...specialist in bird and animal diseases, most of the time at the University of California's Hooper Foundation for Medical Research, of which he is director emeritus. There he developed an effective way of keeping parakeets free of the psittacosis virus by frequent injections of chlortetracycline (Aureomycin). But the injection method was costly and impractical for most budgie owners. Backed by Manhattan's Hartz Mountain Products Corp. (bird feeds and medications), Dr. Meyer spent three more years finding an effective way to impregnate the birds' feed with the antibiotic in a uniform and stable concentration...
...both tests, parakeets were fed on a schedule of two days on millet seed enriched with Aureomycin, one day on plain feed. After 15 days, virtually all became virus-free. Hartz Mountain will begin marketing the treated feed in September, and parakeet owners can relax at last. Dr. Meyer's next project: a medicated feed for table birds, especially turkeys, which are also subject to ornithosis epidemics (TIME, March...
Accused by FTC of a "dangerous attempt" to create a monopoly in tetracycline and such related drugs as Aureomycin and Terramycin were: American Cyanamid Co., biggest antibiotic maker; Chas. Pfizer & Co., second biggest; Olin Mathieson, Upjohn, Bristol-Myers and its subsidiary, Bristol Laboratories...