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Almost as heartening are the early results in tuberculous meningitis. Dr. Clark has treated several cases which had relapsed after courses of streptomycin. After 80 days of streptomycin, eight-year-old Elsie still had a fever; she had TB germs in her spinal fluid; she was mentally clouded and suffering spasms. Within a month, isoniazid changed all that, and not long after, Dr. Clark was able to take Elsie to the circus...
Questions. As Dr. Tompsett was careful to point out in London, bacilli can still be found in most patients with TB of the lungs after months of isoniazid treatment. So there is no reason to believe that the drug can really wipe out the disease. Nobody knows how long the drug can be given at a stretch, or how soon its effects may wear off after it is withdrawn...
Finally, there is the frightening fact that tubercle bacilli, by changing their nature, may learn to live with isoniazid, producing "resistant strains." But there is reason to believe that these can be kept to a minimum by giving isoniazid along with another anti-TB drug...
...most of these problems should be in by year's end. Meanwhile, the patient Navajo patients and the Bureau of Indian Affairs have helped Dr. Clark and the Cornell researchers to prove isoniazid's worth. It is the second truly great weapon for chemical warfare against TB...
...corporations to show a profit gain (7%) despite a 65% jump in taxes. Squibb's was another. On slightly larger sales than Mathieson, it earned $9,700,000, up 20% from 1950. Tom Nichols thinks that with such products as Squibb's new TB drug (TIME, March 3), he can pull up Squibb's profits still further. To do so in the fastest moving of all chemical fields-the wonder drugs-Fast Mover Nichols will have to step livelier than ever...