Word: nystatin
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...bacterial onslaught of molds and fungi. "If we had not found a solution," says Baldini, "those frescoes would have been devoured by micro-organisms." He and his colleagues ran through dozens of mold-killing antibiotics to test their effect on paint. Finally one was left: Squibb's Nystatin, a stomach medicine, which did not harm the pigments. But it came in the form of pills, which could not be fed to a wall. At last the University of Florence's chemistry department found a way to render powdered Nystatin soluble, and it was sprayed on the frescoes...
Experts agree that three combinations are justified: 1) streptomycin with other drugs (such as isoniazid) to discourage the appearance of resistant tubercle bacilli; 2) penicillin with streptomycin for inflammation of the heart lining (endocarditis); 3) tetracycline (or related antibiotics) with nystatin, not routinely but in some cases, to guard against secondary infection with the fungus monilia. Granting exceptions such as these, the Archives' editorialists conclude: "It is our firm conviction that the promotion and sale of such combinations should be discouraged...
...areas and reaches the lungs or brain heart or kidneys. There have been cases in which a child's entire body has been covered with itchy inflammation. In treating such cases of moniliasis, still another antibiotic has been found to help undo the harm wrought by other antibiotics-nystatin (Mycostatin), which has come into general use only this year...
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