Word: neomycin
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...tried hard to tame actinomycin, but none of his chemical tricks seemed to work. After thousands of animals had been killed in his Rutgers University lab, he gave up and began hunting other antibiotics. By 1943, he found the wonder drug, streptomycin. In 1949. he and his assistants produced neomycin (TIME, April 4, 1949). Actinomycin became a half-forgotten curiosity. Dr. Waksman kept only a sample somewhere in the litter on his desk...
...Cortisone is extremely useful in many eye infections because it prevents scarring of the cornea, but it has no power to kill the germs. Now the Upjohn Co. has combined cortisone with the antibiotic neomycin, expects the two-way treatment to be especially valuable in pinkeye...
Researchers at the University of California have found that there are about as many cases of antagonism between the drugs as there are of cooperation. By & large, they report, any two of four antibiotics in Group I-penicillin, streptomycin, bacitracin and neomycin-work well together. Except in rare cases, however, none of these four should be used with an antibiotic from Group II: aureomycin, Chloromycetin, terramycin. And while no great harm may come of combining two antibiotics within Group II, no real advantage can be expected either; the combination simply works like a bigger dose of either drug alone...
...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...
...infection was licked, and a few days later the fat farmer walked out, pain-free for the first time in years. Says Dr. Duncan: "There may not be many cases like this, but if we can save only one or two patients a year with a drug like neomycin, that drug has justified its existence...