Word: streptomycin
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...attention again to poetry and art. He could applaud Actress-of-the-Year Ingrid Bergman, wrinkle his pseudo-Philistine brow over the re-emergence of Artist-of-the-Year Pablo Picasso, still full of invention and razzle-dazzle, still able to rouse resentment. He could view the discovery of streptomycin by Doctor-of-the-Year Selman Wakeman as something more than irony...
...drug, streptomycin...
...with Promin: treatment sometimes has to stop because it causes anemia.) Only two patients got worse in spite of treatment, and their cases were very advanced. The Leprosarium doctors think improvement under Promin is "definite." The next step is to try out the newer, better TB drugs-diasone and streptomycin...
...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...
...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...