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...Mexican-American, the gringo doctor is the quack. "Just as the Anglo* goes to the folk curist only in the last stages of cancer when everything else has failed, the Latin American goes to the physician only after all else has failed," said Madsen. "He thinks as much of penicillin as we do of bat wings...
...antibiotics cited in the Justice Department suit are aureomycin, terramycin' and tetracycline-three broad-spectrum antibiotics, so called because, unlike narrow-spectrum penicillin, they treat a wide variety of diseases. Until 1953, according to Government charges, Cyanamid's aureomycin and Pfizer's terramycin accounted for 92% of the broad-spectrum market. At that point, all three defendants, plus New York's Heyden Chemical Co. (now Heyden-Newport Chemical Corp.), applied for patent rights on tetracycline, a new antibiotic made with an aureomycin base...
...breakthrough came in 1959 with the isolation of 6-aminopenicillanic acid, which is the hard core of all penicillin molecules. The new Penbritin is the first modification found to be active against a wider range of bacteria...
...from being a single, simple drug, penicillin is a whole family of drugs with slightly differing properties that determine which one is best for a particular illness. Together they make up the royal family of antibiotics. Last week the British were saluting the arrival of a new penicillin prince, Penbritin,* which promises to carry the fight against groups of microbes that have defied all previous penicillins. If it fulfills its early promise, Penbritin will become the first-choice drug against several forms of food poisoning, certain types of respiratory infections and meningitis, and possibly typhoid fever as well...
...benefits from an encounter with the doctor have grown at an ever faster pace. The microbe-killing sulfas came along in time to be dusted into the wounds of hundreds of thousands of servicemen in World War II-and were in turn pushed aside by antibiotics such as penicillin (1945) and tetracycline (1953). Tuberculosis and some forms of pneumonia were brought under control. Virus diseases have resisted cures, but medicine developed effective vaccines that drastically curbed more of them-notably influenza and poliomyelitis...