Streptomycin in Urinary Tuberculosis

Streptomycin in Tuberculosis

Streptomycin Therapy in Tuberculosis

The following is a report on the effect of streptomycin in twenty-one suitable cases of tuberculosis treated in the Hardinge Hospital (Dharampore and Arcadia Dharampore) during the year 1948. Clinical material.?All patients in this series had pulmonary tuberculosis which, prior to streptomycin therapy, had not responded to bedrest or other accepted forms, of treatment. There was roentgenographi...

[Streptomycin in the treatment of tuberculosis in children; streptomycin in the treatment of miliary tuberculosis].

Present status of streptomycin in tuberculosis.

Streptomycin has become estabiished as a valuable weapon in the therapy of tuberculous infections. Tuberculosis is a protein disease, its symptomatologg and prognosis variable. As is well known, spontaneous healing may occur without benefit of presently accepted therapeutic measures. Hence it is readily apparent that the final evaluation of any tubercu!o-chemotherapeutic agent will be possible ...

Combination promin and streptomycin therapy for tuberculosis.

Antibiotics have been assuming a greater place in our armamentariurn for the treatment of tuberculosis. Various drugs have been tried from time to time. Some of them have been discarded completely; others have been used for specific types of cases. As time has gone on, it has become evident that dosages were entirely erratic and, further, that a combination of some of these drugs might be more ...