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Word: chloramphenicol (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1949-1949
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...farmer's germs were a special strain. They had licked their weight in penicillin, and come back to knock out streptomycin, chloramphenicol and aureomycin. Unchecked, they were a sure bet to kill the farmer. Dr. Garfield G. Duncan pitted the tough germs in a test tube against neomycin. The drug murdered them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Healing Soil | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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