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...realistic, are more detailed than necessary and too diverse. Most frequent complaint: basic information about a patient's birthplace, business, earlier illnesses, etc. must be provided on most follow-up forms each time he gets new treatment. One Los Angeles physician gave a patient a simple penicillin shot, had to call him back for a second visit when the form also required a general health checkup. A Denver obstetrician simply ignores one insurance-form question: Was the pregnancy an accident...
...send a hurry call to Paris for more. By last week, more than 125,000 grams of gold had been sent to France. During one month alone, the government had paid out more than 22 million French African francs to Kaka and Baya tribesmen bringing in gold dust in penicillin bottles...
...Rockefeller Foundation, director of its medical-sciences division (1930-51), and world leader in public health; after long illness; in Big Sur, Calif. Dr. Gregg joined the foundation in 1919, promoted generous grants to help finance the proving of sulfanilamide (first of the modern wonder drugs) and of penicillin, backed sex studies (including those of the late Alfred C. Kinsey), and pioneered the concept of mental illness as a disease needing specialized treatment...
Every week U.S. physicians are being bombarded with samples and ads of prefabricated antibiotic combinations-penicillin with novobiocin, neomycin with bacitracin, oleandomycin with tetracycline, and dozens more. In addition, antibiotics are offered in combination with the sulfas or with unrelated items-anti-histamines, hormones, vitamins. Just how good are these package drugs...
Experts agree that three combinations are justified: 1) streptomycin with other drugs (such as isoniazid) to discourage the appearance of resistant tubercle bacilli; 2) penicillin with streptomycin for inflammation of the heart lining (endocarditis); 3) tetracycline (or related antibiotics) with nystatin, not routinely but in some cases, to guard against secondary infection with the fungus monilia. Granting exceptions such as these, the Archives' editorialists conclude: "It is our firm conviction that the promotion and sale of such combinations should be discouraged...