Word: streptomycinate
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...funds work out at about $1.80 a day for each patient. Local and voluntary moneys boost the total to $4.50, whereas in hard-pressed Mississippi the total is $6.24, and in Tennessee $10. Only three of Alabama's eight sanatoriums are equipped for surgery, and some give streptomycin and isoniazid only to patients who can pay for them. One 65-bed hospital has no registered nurse; a practical nurse does her best with unskilled help...
...Other states have recently faced the same problem as Alabama, and have gone far toward defeating it. Pennsylvania, rich, but with many pesthole slums, cut its lung-tuberculosis death rate from 37 per 100,000 in 1945 to 16 in 1952. Though this was the period when streptomycin worked its greatest wonders, Pennsylvania laid the basis for continuing betterment. More unsuspected cases are being found through mass X-ray programs, and 36 centers for surgical treatment have been set up. Vaccination with BCG is being tested. However, Pennsylvania still needs nearly twice as many beds...
...patient was getting no better, and in fact was being kept alive only by frequent injections of streptomycin. After a while he became so angry at being repeatedly jabbed with the needle that his adrenal output soared back to normal. Now he is recovering...
...Encouraged by the first year's results with isoniazid (especially when given along with streptomycin or PAS), New York City officials announced an ambitious program to bring every known tuberculosis case under treatment. Outpatient care will help those waiting for hospital beds and will make it possible to send patients home sooner but keep them under treatment; it will also be good for many of the balky ones who refuse hospitalization...
...Streptomycin...