Word: chloromycetin
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...referred to in "Volunteers for Viet Nam" [May 20], Hugh Sulfridge and Hugh Caumartin are from Saginaw, Mich. Evidence of what this city thinks of them: they were given $2,000 by one of the churches to buy medical supplies and equipment, and more than $1,000 worth of Chloromycetin has been shipped to Viet Nam, paid for by popular subscription...
...CHLORAMPHENICOL. For 15 years FDA has struggled with the problem of how to label and whether to restrict the use of this antibiotic (Parke, Davis' Chloromycetin). It is unquestionably the best drug against half a dozen uncommon diseases and a few medical conditions that should be treated in hospitals. But it is often prescribed to avert the aftereffects of a common cold, for which it is useless and also dangerous, because it may cause death from anemia...
...with food handling. But grandma takes over in the kitchen. If she is careless about bathroom cleanliness (the bacilli are transmitted from fecal matter only through food and drink), she gives the youngsters an unwelcome and unexpected gift of typhoid. Their acute illnesses can be cured with chloramphenicol (Chloromycetin). After this modern treatment so few become carriers, they create a negligible problem for the future. But grandma's long-standing carrier condition requires intensive and difficult treatment, which most of the elderly women refuse. It will take another generation. Dr. Smadel suggested, for typhoid...
...they called for still stronger warnings, which Parke, Davis put out a year ago. The chief recommendation is that doctors using Chloromycetin for long-term or repeated treatment should keep close check on their patients' blood-cell counts...
...latest compilation, just issued, shows that in the first half of 1961 there were 138 such cases reported and probably more unreported. By far the biggest offender was Chloromycetin, with 56 cases charged against...