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Serendipity and Science.
The Sulfa Drugs.
Battles Fought with Drugs and Bullets.
The Antibiotics.
Penicillin.
Streptomycin.
Broad-Spectrum Antibiotics.
A Revolutionary Disease Therapy.
After World War II, with the increasing development of the pharmaceutical industry and proof of chemotherapy's treatment effectiveness, an intensive search for effective agents for particular diseases continued. Other antibiotics, such as bacitracin, chloramphenicol, tetracycline, erythromycin, and Aureomycin, have been identified. Apart from some of the problems of their toxic effects, the sulfonamides and the antibiotics, including penicillin, have lost effectiveness because bacterial strains have developed which are immune to the drugs' actions. Since 1940 the development of antibiotics has revolutionized disease therapy and enormously increased the expectation of successful treatment for formerly intractable diseases.Source:
James Bordley III and A. McGehee Harvey, Two Centuries of American Medicine (Philadelphia: Saunders, 1976), pp. 445-470.
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