Word: penicillins
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...Techniques of compounding potions have changed little since the customers wore string ties and bustles, but the products are somewhat different. Patent medicines are less in demand now, and if there are any home remedies in stock, they are dwarfed by a modern refrigerator that holds biological scrums and penicillin. Business is strictly ethical, and though students may use the store telephone to schedule a rendezvous, they know better than to ask for benzedrino...
Streptomycin, like penicillin, but unlike aerosporin (TIME, Feb. 23), has dangerous effects that are probably inherent, and not due to impurities. Streptomycin may cause headaches, skin eruptions, dizziness, may damage kidneys or ears...
...Penicillin's toxic or irritant effect is "unimportant," except when it is injected into the spine; then it may cause convulsions. A few patients may get a rash, no matter how the drug is given; sensitivity may follow use of the drug, so it should not be used for minor ailments...
Like scientists everywhere, Britain's were looking for a new antibiotic. They hoped for something good enough to put on the same shelf with penicillin and streptomycin...
Surgeons, because of better anesthetics, no longer have to fight tissues that are only partially relaxed; operating-table in juries are less severe, scars smaller. Surgeons have also become better-trained, gentler, more skillful seamsters ; penicillin arms them better against infection...