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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 March 1957Vol. XXVII, No. 8

Drug For Tropical

p. 145 · Read in the full issue

Infections

E3SS with a new method of iting tropical infections— h as ulcers, yaws and asis (a type of dysentery)— med (by its maker) for ycin. Snyermycin is a com i of the well-known ;ic, tetracycline, and what lied a newly-discovered ;ic, oleandomycin. claimed that, when mixed, ibiotics enhance each other’s , and become more powerful le sum of their individual lling capacity.

Elmer H. Loughlin and G. Mullin, of the New York College, who have used the e, gave details of experi vith it on tropical cases to irth Annual Symposium on ;ics in Washington.