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Streptomycin, an antibiotic containing a germ-killing soil organism called Actinomyces griseus, is especially effective against certain deadly "gram-negative" infections for which there was no known cure. It does the job in many a case where penicillin and the sulfa drugs fail. But it is expensive: about $16 a gram (average treatment: six to ten grams). Since the drug's discovery in 1944 by Rutgers' Microbiologist Selman A. Waksman, it has been tested against a wide variety of diseases by a National Research Council committee headed by Boston's Dr. Chester S. Keefer. Their report...
...stages of pulmonary tuberculosis. Nineteen improved (though four relapsed after treatment stopped). Dr. Hmshaw's conclusion: though streptomycin arrests, it does not eradicate T.B will be valuable only as a supplement to other forms of treatment. Other findings-Tularemia (rabbit fever). A seven-day treatment with streptomycin (one gram a day) promptly cured 63 out of 67 cases...
...radioactive equivalent of one one-thousandth of a gram of radium...
CRYSTALLINE VITAMIN D, one gram of which equals 49 million units of vitamin D, has been perfected by Pet Milk Co. chemists. One ounce will pep up 4½ million cans of evaporated milk...
About 1.5% of U.S. hogs are infested, and one gram of infested meat may contain thousands of the parasites. The disease is passed along chiefly by feeding garbage to hogs...