Word: streptomycin
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...Mayo Clinic, Dr. H. C. Hinshaw, after finding that streptomycin stopped the growth of tubercle bacilli in guinea pigs, gave the drug to 24 hopeless human patients in advanced stages of pulmonary tuberculosis. Nineteen improved (though four relapsed after treatment stopped). Dr. Hmshaw's conclusion: though streptomycin arrests, it does not eradicate T.B will be valuable only as a supplement to other forms of treatment. Other findings-Tularemia (rabbit fever). A seven-day treatment with streptomycin (one gram a day) promptly cured 63 out of 67 cases...
...Streptomycin is by far the best therapeutic agent available for... this disease " Urinary Tract Infections (kidneys and bladder). Of 409 patients, some of whom had been ill for 20 years, streptomycin cured 171, improved...
Influenzal Meningitis. Of 100 cases treated with streptomycin, 79 recovered, 17 died, four did not improve. Normal death rate...
...streptomycin also had some failures. Against typhoid fever, undulant fever and Salmonella (certain kinds of food poisoning), streptomycin showed "no dramatic results." The drug is also mildly toxic in doses above one gram a day: 20% of the patients treated had headaches, fever, skin rashes or dizziness...
...minimum streptomycin treatment for T.B. is three months; cost...