Word: chloromycetin
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...A.M.A. Journal, three groups of doctors reported fatal cases (eight in all) of aplastic anemia following treatment with the antibiotic Chloromycetin. Editorially, the Journal warned against use of the drug for minor ills, wondered whether it might have to be limited to such serious complaints as typhoid. The Food & Drug Administration started checking all new cases of aplastic anemia to see whether Chloromycetin had been used...
What was glutaril cas. 20%? At week's end, the police had not yet succeeded in getting an analysis of what was left in the bottle. Dr. Pauletta's colleagues guessed that it might be an antibiotic of the chloromycetin group. They were helping police sift through the dead man's papers, to see if Dr. Pauletta had left any notes about...
...meant. As a result of a plant expansion that will double production, Pfizer sliced the price on terramycin, its biggest seller, from 15% to 40%. The cut was bound to shake down prices of terramycin's two great competitors, Lederle's aureomycin and Parke, Davis' chloromycetin...
...built the best philosophy department in the U.S. On the Yale faculty are men like fiery Historian Samuel Flagg Bemis, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner (Pinckney's Treaty; John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy); cherubic Composer Paul Hindemith; Botanist Paul Burkholder, who helped develop chloromycetin; Cleanth Brooks of the New Criticism; and Theologian H. Richard Niebuhr, brother of Reinhold, in the Divinity School...
Finally, there were the technical improvements in antibiotics and transfusions. Penicillin, scarce and little understood in World War II, was available in Korea in carload lots, in suspensions which would stay in the system for many life-saving hours. Also on hand were aureomycin, Chloromycetin and Terramycin, often effective where penicillin fails. There was also whole blood, which the Army doctors used more & more in preference to plasma. The shipping and preservation were so efficient (it must be used within 21 days) that Dr. Meiling reported proudly : "Not one unit was lost during September by being outdated...