Word: chloromycetin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What to Do? Most of the dangerous staph are immediately found to be resistant to penicillin and streptomycin. They show descending orders of resistance to the tetracyclines (Aureomycin, Terramycin, Achromycin) and chloramphenicol (Chloromycetin). Strains have emerged that show varying resistance to still newer antibiotics. Strangely, nobody knows exactly how severe the problem is because most deaths caused by staph are not so listed. If a patient admitted for heart surgery dies of a staph infection, his death is attributed to the original heart trouble. Example: in Seattle and surrounding King County, only four deaths...
...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...
...control of a small Japanese sewing machine firm and install new machines so the firm could compete better in world markets. Singer was turned down, although it promised not to take more than half its export profits off the island. ¶ Parke, Davis & Co. wanted to manufacture Chloromycetin, pointed out that it cost the Japanese a precious $300,000 annually for patent rights to make it themselves, but got nowhere...
...Researchers at Michigan State Health Laboratories and doctors in Mexico re ported a new antibiotic, Synnematin, as a prompt and effective cure for typhoid fever. Hitherto. Chloromycetin had been by far the best drug against typhoid. ¶ Britain's Medical Press suggested a new feature of social medicine. "The house wife . . . cannot present her husband with a medical certificate and take a few weeks' sick leave; she has to carry on ... until she is literally unable to stagger around the house." Since a woman could use sick pay to hire help while she got a rest, the journal...
There were plenty of individual exceptions to the general rise. Price-cutting in the "wonder drugs" and heavy criticism of Chloromycetin drove Parke Davis' net down 57% (to $2,200,000), and further inroads on coal's markets by oil and gas drove Pittsburgh Consolidation's net down...