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...simpler disturbance in the balance of ordinary colon bacilli, Dr. Weiss found that acidophilus milk did the trick. More often, however, he had to use an ion-exchange resin with silicates (Resion) and eventually had to beef this up with phthalysulfacetamide, an intestinal antiseptic, and-ironically-another antibiotic, Polymixin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Misuse of Antibiotics | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

...Doctors are experimenting with at least 122 promising antibiotics. But only the Big Two-penicillin and streptomycin-are widely used on human patients. Runners-up: Aerosporin, chloromycetin, bacitracin, polymixin, gramicidin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Forward Steps | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

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