Word: streptomycin
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...many of the common microbes . . . but on others it is quite inactive. The publicity given to penicillin has caused me to receive thousands of letters from sufferers from tuberculosis and other diseases which penicillin does not touch." But as Sir Alexander long ago predicted, another mold-produced antibiotic-streptomycin (TIME, Jan. 29)-has given promise of succeeding where penicillin fails. Recent encouraging news of streptomycin's performance...
...five cases of typhoid and two of undulant fever, reported by Philadelphia's Dr. Hobart Reimann to the New York Academy of Medicine, streptomycin chalked up five cures out of seven. The results are still far from conclusive, but the failures, said Dr. Reimann, might easily have been caused by incorrect dosage and a still insufficient supply of the drug...
...Streptomycin has cleared up many an intestinal and urinary tract infection. The drug's discoverer, Dr. Selman A. Waksman, reports that when used before an abdominal operation it tends to prevent post-operative infections...
...Penicillin Streptomycinate?" Helped by money from the Commonwealth Fund, the Federal Government and big drug firms, Dr. Waksman and his dozen students now spend most of their time on streptomycin. Many other laboratories are experimenting on animals with the new drug, working out production methods. In six months there may be enough for a thorough tryout on humans...
Half seriously, Dr. Waksman predicts that since penicillin is an acid and streptomycin is a base, they may eventually be combined into a salt, "penicillin streptomycinate." The salt might be so effective against so many diseases that doctors would no longer have to make diagnoses; they could give it for all infectious diseases, and many of the courses in medical schools could be abolished...