Word: streptomycin
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There were fresh reinforcements for the "wonder" drug streptomycin (against which some bugs are fighting back...
...Selman A. Waksman, streptomycin's discoverer, produced a sister drug named grisein from the same soil organism. Grisein's job: to knock out (with the help of streptomycin) bacteria that develop a resistance to streptomycin alone...
...Streptomycin still looks like the most promising foe of tuberculosis, but Dr. Alfred Marshak of the U.S. Public Health Service found another likely-looking one: a yellow crystal extracted from California Spanish moss (not to be confused with the lacy Spanish moss that hangs from trees). It checks T.B. in guinea pigs, has still to be tested...
Carville has had excellent results with three sulfa drugs: Promin, Diasone and Promizole (streptomycin, now under test, also looks promising). Last year the leprosarium discharged 37 patients, this year it will discharge 40 or more. Said its medical chief, Dr. Guy H. Faget: "The sulfones have stopped even the most hopeless cases in their tracks...
...plants. All other big bakers either cut production or planned to close. For want of hides and leather, shoe production next month would drop to about one-third of the first-quarter level, with many shutdowns of shoe factories in the offing. For want of animal extracts, insulin and streptomycin supplies dwindled toward a critical...