Word: streptomycinate
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...Streptomycin quickly proved its value against many forms of tuberculosis, but one of the deadliest held out against the wonder drug: tuberculous meningitis. A particular enemy of children (its bacilli attack the covering of the brain and spinal column), tuberculous meningitis used to mean swift and almost certain death; the few survivors were hopelessly crippled. Now, the U.S. Public Health Service reports, the death rate has been cut almost in half, and the damage to survivors greatly reduced...
...best treatment, doctors now believe, calls for injections of streptomycin into the spinal fluid as well as the muscles. Because some tubercle bacilli develop resistance to the antibiotic, the patients are also given para-aminosalicylic acid (TIME...
Simultaneously, the researchers used streptomycin and PAS against miliary tuberculosis, an equally deadly form of the disease (in which the bacilli are spread throughout the system) which also singles out children. In these cases the results were even more encouraging...
...When streptomycin was found in a shovelful of New Jersey dirt (TIME, Jan. 29, 1945), Pfizer added it to its line, while continuing a search for an antibiotic of its own. Since no one ever knows where a new antibiotic will be turned up (the purest penicillin strain was discovered growing on a melon in Peoria), Pfizer began to check the molds in 100,000 different samples of soil, gathered from all over the world. The job, says McKeen, was to find "the compounds that God has put in the earth for centuries." After uncovering 75 possible antibiotics, none...
...Selman A. Waksman, who made enough money as co-discoverer of streptomycin to finance a $1,000,000 Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University (TIME, May 16, 1949), last week turned over half ($40,000 a year) of his remaining royalties to a new foundation. Its purpose: to support professorships and fellowships, finance the publication of technical papers and books, sponsor scientific meetings, and help in the development of microbiological discoveries for practical use in all parts of the free world...