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...Penicillin was still winning more battles than it lost. Despite setbacks because of clumsy handling of the drug (e.g., use of ineffective strains and weak doses which allow resistant bacteria to develop-TIME, July 15), doctors last week had some notable victories to report...
...Operations. Penicillin is customarily used to fight infection after it develops. But British Surgeon R. Wood Power gave stiff doses of it, to prevent infection, to some 250 patients on whom he performed major operations. Result: few infections, no fatal blood clots, rapid recovery (after appendectomies, patients were up & about on the second...
Gramicidin is not a mold extract, but is produced by bacteria. The development of penicillin was independent of our work with gramicidin...
...cactus to the desert, the bacteria seem to adapt themselves quickly when exposed to the initially hostile environment created by the new drugs. In the last few months, bacteriologists have bred strains of pneumococci, streptococci and other common germs which are practically immune to the sulfa drugs, penicillin...
...Jumps Ahead. In clinical experience, too, doctors have been meeting drug-resistant infections which they attribute to new mutations among the bacteria. Gonorrheal infections now often do not respond as readily to the sulfa drugs as they did a few years ago. Penicillin is still effective against the disease; but the British Medical Journal, reviewing recent research, warns "against the idea that penicillin will necessarily continue indefinitely to cure nearly every case...