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Nobody knows for sure what causes tooth decay. But since acid-producing bacteria are now blamed by most cavity detectives, an antibiotic to check the bacteria looked like a good bet. Last week, with the blessing of the Food & Drug Administration, the Andrew Jergens Co. offered druggists just such a prescription item: Dentocillin, a tooth powder containing penicillin...
...Kerr's own theory is that physical surroundings, especially temperature changes, cause colds, but that the possibilities have been neglected by single-minded bacteriologists who are more interested in proving that bacteria or viruses are the cause. In short, said Dr. Kerr: "A cold is simply a failure to react to an overall cooling of the body ... A cold is no more infectious than a toothache. The terms Viruses' and 'allergic states' are medical escape terms...
...Stokstad and Jukes do not know why the antibiotic is also a growth stimulant. They do not think it functions as a vitamin. More likely, they suspect, it inhibits intestinal bacteria that consume vitamins or have other harmful effects on the animal's nutrition. They hope that it may prove valuable in treating some types of human malnutrition...
Because of ACTH's power to turn certain disease processes off & on at will, Dr. Mote believes that its discovery compares in importance with the identification of bacteria as causes of disease. After a century, the full bacteria story is not yet known. It may take as long to unravel the mysteries of such hormones as ACTH...
...test tube and in laboratory animals, terramycin kills heavy growths of bacteria which cause one of the commonest forms of pneumonia, streptococcal infections, typhoid fever, and many intestinal and urinary tract infections. These are the disease germs against which antibiotics already in use are most effective. So if terramycin shows up well in the tests, now beginning, on humans, it will give doctors an extra weapon of a familiar type, rather than a basically...