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Without much hope, the doctors started all the standard treatments: a hefty shot of tetanus antitoxin (to counteract the poison released by the bacteria in the festering wound), penicillin to reduce the spread of infection, sedatives to calm the anguished patient, and muscle relaxants to ease his stiffening, contorted body. They cleaned the infected wound and put Douma in an oxygen tent (because the nerve center that controls breathing is especially susceptible to tetanus poison). But it seemed to be too late. During the next 24 hours, Douma suffered several convulsions and muscle spasms. His back arched like...
...only medicine you have is penicillin -no other antibiotics, no hormones. If you need another medicine, you may have to phone dozens of pharmacies...
Chloromycetin. which is Parke. Davis' trade name for the potent antibiotic chloramphenicol. got FDA approval in 1949. It attacked many bacteria against which penicillin was useless, notably the typhoid bacillus; equally important, it was the first effective drug against psittacosis (caused by an unusually large virus) and against such diseases as typhus, scrub typhus and spotted fever (caused by related microbes called rickettsiae ). Not until 1952, when hundreds of thousands of patients had had the drug-often for viral respiratory infections against which neither it nor any other antibiotic is effective-did evidence arise that it had caused...
...Came within an ace of dying. Pneumonia. They call it the old man's friend -it takes you easy. But they gave me tons of penicillin. I said to my doctor, 'What do you call penicillin if it's the enemy of the old man's friend?' I never thought it was the end, but I thought if I died it would help sell my books. You know, when you come close to death, you feel awestruck. It's not fear" As he talked last week in South Miami, Robert Frost walked slowly...
...joined by two research fellows. Drs. Frederick C. Robbins and Thomas Weller. The work was bedeviled by bacteria contaminating the cultures, making them useless before a slow-starting virus multiplied. Virologists began adding antibiotics to their cultures to keep out bacteria; Enders hit upon a particularly successful combination of penicillin and streptomycin. Yet even in uncontaminated cultures, Enders failed to isolate and grow the obstreperous measles virus...