Word: terramycin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...antibiotic-perhaps any drug used to kill bacteria-might cause this disorder said Dr. Weiss, but most often to blame are the "broad-spectrum" antibiotics such as aureomycin, terramycin, Chloromycetin. The doctor may be using these wisely against an infection for which they are known to be effective, or unwisely against virus" diseases in which they are not likely to be of any use. Either way the antibiotics kill off many of the bacteria normally found in a healthy intestinal tract. In so doing, they disturb the balance of nature and leave the depopulated gut as a breeding ground...
...treatment for pernicious anemia, and through the work of Bacteriologist John Enders, laid the groundwork for a safe polio vaccine. One scientist, the late Edwin J. Cohn (TIME, Oct. 12), made the blood bank possible; another, Chemist Robert Woodward, developed a theory that may lead to the synthesis of terramycin and aureomycin...
Tree Doctor. Chas. Pfizer & Co. of Brooklyn has developed a new antibiotic drug* for trees and plants that cures such previously fatal plant diseases as fire blight (in apple and pear trees) and halo blight (in beans). Agrimycin, a compound of streptomycin and terramycin, is absorbed into the plants' systems just as antibiotics penetrate the human blood stream. The drug will be available in quantity by March...
...special strain because he suffers painfully from arthritis which is slowly stiffening his hips. Twice weekly he submits to the ministrations of a masseuse, and he keeps a bottle of Bufferin handy for use when the pain becomes too intense. The arthritis is degenerative, though cortisone and Terramycin have slowed its progress...
...stool specimens for laboratory analysis: as many as 9,000 may be needed over a period of six months. Only then will it be known which workers are clear of amoebae. For the estimated 700 who will get positive reports, there will be immediate free treatment with fumagillin or terramycin. At full cost, the program would run to $77,000, but manufacturers will supply about $30,000 worth of drugs free...