Word: penicillins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plunged a needle into her back and tapped the spinal fluid. Its high cell content buttressed his fears. While Navajo Nelson Bennett worked the field radio to alert the Navajo medical center at Fort Defiance for an emergency admission, Dr. Burkhardt gave Mary Grey-Eyes a massive penicillin injection. This would combat the infection if pneumococci, rather than tubercle bacilli, were the cause...
...leaped from a hesitant, tentative approach to one of great confidence: there is now nobody with acquired or congenital heart disease who cannot be considered as a prospect for surgery, and many cases can be helped. Equally important has been the successful attack on rheumatic fever, achieved mainly with penicillin. Ranking next, Dr. Wilkins listed ground gains against high blood pressure, now controlled with drugs in most patients, so that surgery is practically disappearing...
...Michael: Alice Turner has been sick two weeks. Started with side ache and vomiting. Temperature 101.4, but it's down now. I've been giving her penicillin. Over...
...President John E. McKeen said: "Pfizer never engaged in a conspiracy, never misused its patents, never fixed prices, and wields no monopolistic powers." Although recognizing that the newer wonder drugs do command high prices, the manufacturers long since have cut the price of the older standbys, such as penicillin and streptomycin, so low that they are added in large amounts to animal feed. Said Bristol-Myers' President Frederick N. Schwartz: "Our average profit on all antibiotics sold in 1957 was less than 1? per dose...
...developed from a microbe found in K-2J, has won quick renown. Like all potent drugs, it has its disadvantages (it must usually be given by injection, and long-continued heavy dosage may cause some degree of deafness). But it seems worthy to rank with the tetracyclines, which, after penicillin (still queen of antibiotics), are now the most-used antibiotics...