Word: streptomycinate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Promising Drug. Dr. Horton Corwin Hinshaw of the Mayo Foundation also had some news for the Buffalo meeting. Tests on 65 patients had proved that streptomycin definitely arrests TB. It looks like "the first clinically feasible" drug for use in TB, said Dr. Hinshaw...
...custodian of the nation's meager supply of streptomycin was on the hot seat. To Boston's Dr. Chester S. Keefer* it seemed that everyone wanted the powerful new drug-foreign nations; Congressmen (for their constituents); distraught fathers & mothers, anxious to try anything that might cure a sick child. Newspapers were featuring swallow-hard stories about babies wasting away for want of streptomycin...
...available supply of streptomycin, the National Research Council has 31%. (The remainder is divided among the Army, Navy, U.S. Public Health Service, Veterans Administration.) No physician is charged for it. No patient who receives it pays for it. A full report of each case in which streptomycin is used must be sent for analysis to the Committee on Chemotherapeutics...
Concluded Dr. Keefer: "Because of the restricted supply ... it is obvious that patients selected to receive [streptomycin] must be those whom it can be expected to benefit and from whose treatment useful, needed information can be derived. Under present conditions many requests will inevitably have to be refused...
...Chairman of the Committee on Chemotherapeutics of the National Research Council which controls streptomycin, its study...