Word: streptomycinate
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...Streptomycin, the new wonder drug made from a soil organism (TIME, Jan. 29), has at last had a try out on people, reported the Mayo Clinic's Drs. H. C. Hinshaw and W. H. Feldman. The group of experts, who conducted an experiment on 34 people, found that, against tuberculosis, streptomycin is nothing to shout about yet. Streptomycin did its best work on such odd kinds of tuberculosis as urinary, skin and miliary (nodules widely spread through the body). In streptomycin's favor: it is not dangerous to use. and experiments are continuing...
...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...
...Tested on tuberculous guinea pigs at Stanford University, streptomycin kept infection down to 5.8% of a theoretically possible 100% infection. (The amount of t.b. a guinea pig has is determined by autopsy.) Other guinea pigs, given tuberculosis bacilli but no streptomycin, developed 67% infection. Trials on a few human patients have just begun...