Word: polymyxin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Healer. A plastic adhesive bandage impregnated with streptomycin, polymyxin and bacitracin is being test-marketed by Multibiotics Corp. of Baltimore. Called "Bio-Band," the bandage has been approved by the Food & Drug Administration for over-the-counter sale, is the first bandage treated with wonder drugs available without a prescription...
...record, he was right. As the convention proceeded, there were optimistic reports of a new antibiotic, tetracycline (like aureomycin but with hydrogen replacing a chlorine atom in the molecule), and of a multibiotic. a triple-threat combination of streptomycin, bacitracin and polymyxin, for external use only. But there was also plenty of talk of deleterious effects. Boston's Dr. Ethan Allan Brown called today's enthusiastic but haphazard use of antibiotics "appalling." It is misleading, he said, to speak only of patients whose deaths are recorded as resulting from reactions to antibiotics. There are more deaths, said...
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