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...Penicillin is still the safest of all drugs, considering the good it does, and it is still enormously effective against some kinds of germs-Dr. Maxwell Finland of Harvard Medical School grants penicillin all that. But, he warned New England colleagues last week, it has lost much of its punch against germs of the staphylococcus group. Reason: it has been too widely used...
...recent series of staphylococcus infections at Boston City Hospital, Dr. Finland found that three times out of four, the germs came of a strain that had learned to defy penicillin. Since many of the patients had never had penicillin before, the resistance had not developed during their treatment; they must have picked up germs already resistant, from other patients who had been dosed with penicillin. Most staphylococcus infections are minor (e.g., boils), but even so, said Dr. Finland, "there was an appreciable number of fatalities among the cases which did not respond to penicillin...
...microbes learn to live with antibiotics and become resistant to their killing power, researchers keep hunting for new antibiotics to stay a jump ahead. Chas. Pfizer and Co.'s latest is magnamycin, now being tried in hospitals, which seems to knock out many germs which can defy penicillin and the rest...
...after the war, he bought the Blatz Brewing Co., put Schenley into wines and vermouth (Cresta Blanca, Roma and La Bohème), rum (Carioca), cordials (DuBouchett), brandies (Coronet, J. Bavet and Jean Robert), gins (Silver Wedding, Schenley, Gibson, etc.), and even set up a chemical division to make penicillin and other antibiotics...
...When other brands came back on the market in volume, Three Feathers sales slumped about 90%; last year the brand did not even place in the top 25. When grape prices skidded five years ago, Rosenstiel dropped close" to $14 million by buying at the wrong time. And when penicillin prices cracked recently, he took another beating. Rosenstiel miscalculated on another score: figuring that the public would turn back to straight whiskies after the war, he plugged his straights (I. W. Harper, Ancient Age, Old Charter) more than did other distillers. But the public preferred blends. Straights now account...