Word: streptomycinate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like scientists everywhere, Britain's were looking for a new antibiotic. They hoped for something good enough to put on the same shelf with penicillin and streptomycin...
Twenty-five grams of vital streptomycin rushed to a Prague hospital by the Student Council meant the difference between life and death to William S. Ellis '44 as he lay critically ill in the midst of a medicine shortage...
Chloromycetin is related to streptomycin, but unlike streptomycin it can be taken by mouth without harmful results. What excites researchers most: in animal tests it has proved a potent cure for certain rickettsial diseases, caused by tiny, bacteria-like organisms that have resisted previous "wonder drugs...
...Streptomycin was on the way last night from the American Red Cross to William Ellis '44, lying ill with pneumonia and pleurisy in a Prague hospital in the hope that the rare drug might help him regain his health...
Nonetheless, the experts thought that streptomycin might be the beginning of the end of the long search for a tuberculosis cure. It is the first drug to have made any impression at all on forms of T.B. that used to be virtually 100% fatal...