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...Stokstad and Jukes do not know why the antibiotic is also a growth stimulant. They do not think it functions as a vitamin. More likely, they suspect, it inhibits intestinal bacteria that consume vitamins or have other harmful effects on the animal's nutrition. They hope that it may prove valuable in treating some types of human malnutrition...
Lederle Laboratories developed aureomycin, an antibiotic, to treat such human ills as whooping cough, typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. This week Drs. E.L.R. Stokstad and T.H. Jukes of Lederle told a Philadelphia convention of the American Chemical Society that aureomycin has an unexpected non-medical talent: it makes domestic animals grow faster...
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