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Since the discovery of mold-grown penicillin 20 years ago, most researchers have done their looking for new antibiotics in other molds. But apparently many new wonder drugs were hiding in many other unlikely places. Dr. John Robert Brown, of the University of Texas Medical Branch, has reported (in Texas Reports on Biology and Medicine) that he has extracted an antibiotic (thus far unproved) from ragweed. Last week, at a National Institute of Health symposium in Washington, new germ killers were reported from other strange sources...
...became impossible because of Mike's weakened condition Dr. Young stuck skin grafts on with thrombin, a clotting agent which served as a sort of human glue. Through the weeks there were over 100 plasma transfusions, eight skin graftings, endless vitamin and protein injections, billions of units of penicillin...
Bush cited examples of how food production could be further increased; they ranged from the treatment of cows with penicillin-to prevent cattle disease which costs Europe 5,000,000 tons of milk a year ("and that will feed a lot of babies") -to controlled photosynthesis and improved fertilizing through methods discovered in the course of atomic research...
...Penicillin is still the No. 1 antibiotic. The race between researchers to produce an antibiotic that can be called No. 2 is fast improving the world's health...
...trouble with streptomycin is that it may make patients dizzy. So far, the new neomycin has had only a slight harmful effect, or none at all, on laboratory animals. Like penicillin, neomycin may possibly work when taken by mouth. Streptomycin must be injected. But headline writers who shout that neomycin is already a better drug for tuberculosis than streptomycin get a pained look from Dr. Waksman. He does not know yet when tests on human patients can get started...