Word: streptomycin
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Branca Maria, 9, had been ill of tuberculous meningitis since April. At first, streptomycin seemed to help her, but lately even this had begun to fail her and she was wasting away rapidly, unable to keep food down. Her father knew nothing of the controversy among medical experts about the value of Varidase, a mixture of two enzymes, streptokinase and streptodornase (TIME, March 12), in her type of illness. He was ready to try anything...
...Oporto doctor gave Branca Maria an injection of Varidase, and waited to see what would happen. (The theory is that the enzymes help to dissolve clotted pus, enable an antibiotic such as streptomycin to go to work on the germs without interference.) Within 45 minutes, Branca Maria took some food and kept it down. It was too early for the doctor to tell whether the usually fatal disease was being arrested. But Santos flew back to Lisbon, picked up a dozen more vials of Varidase to keep up the treatments. Said he: "God bless radio and aviation. Whatever happens, this...
...researchers who worked together for seven years to discover the wonder-drug streptomycin, and then had a falling-out last year (TIME, March 20), finally patched up their difference in a New Jersey court. With the approval of Judge E. Thomas Schettino, Rutgers University's famed Microbiologist Selman Abraham Waksman, who has earned close to $400,000 in royalties from the drug, last week acknowledged that his former laboratory assistant Albert Schatz is "entitled to credit legally and scientifically as co-discoverer of streptomycin." Earnest young (30) Dr. Schatz in turn retracted his charge that Waksman had practiced "fraud...
...most serious complications met in treating tuberculosis is what the doctors call empyema, i.e., the cavity between a lung and the chest wall fills with pus. Not long ago empyema was one of the commonest complications; nowadays, thanks to streptomycin and skillful surgery, it afflicts fewer than one-tenth of tuberculosis patients. But it is still true that nearly half of those it attacks do not recover...
...Committee is also studying a request to send approximately $30 worth of streptomycin to a Bulgarian student in Sofia who is suffering from tuberculosis. He wrote to the University requesting the medicine and the letter was forwarded to the Committee...