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Finally, there were the technical improvements in antibiotics and transfusions. Penicillin, scarce and little understood in World War II, was available in Korea in carload lots, in suspensions which would stay in the system for many life-saving hours. Also on hand were aureomycin, Chloromycetin and Terramycin, often effective where penicillin fails. There was also whole blood, which the Army doctors used more & more in preference to plasma. The shipping and preservation were so efficient (it must be used within 21 days) that Dr. Meiling reported proudly : "Not one unit was lost during September by being outdated...
After testing scores of thousands of soil samples from all over the world, researchers for Charles Pfizer & Co. Inc. announced last week that they had isolated a new and promising antibiotic from a piece of Indiana dirt. The drug, named terramycin (earth mold) by its Brooklyn discoverers, is secreted by a tiny organism, Streptomyces rimosus, of the same group which has produced three other major antibiotics -streptomycin, aureomycin and Chloromycetin...
...test tube and in laboratory animals, terramycin kills heavy growths of bacteria which cause one of the commonest forms of pneumonia, streptococcal infections, typhoid fever, and many intestinal and urinary tract infections. These are the disease germs against which antibiotics already in use are most effective. So if terramycin shows up well in the tests, now beginning, on humans, it will give doctors an extra weapon of a familiar type, rather than a basically...