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Chloromycetin

American  
[klawr-oh-mahy-seet-n, klohr-] / ˌklɔr oʊ maɪˈsit n, ˌkloʊr- /
Pharmacology, Trademark.
  1. a brand of chloramphenicol.


Chloromycetin British  
/ ˌklɔːrəʊmaɪˈsiːtɪn /

noun

  1. a brand of chloramphenicol

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The chief recommendation is that doctors using Chloromycetin for long-term or repeated treatment should keep close check on their patients' blood-cell counts.

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Also widely reported was a judgment of $180,000 against Parke, Davis in the case of a California woman who died seven years after receiving Chloromycetin.

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But so many Americans took Chloromycetin that by 1964 the American Medical Association counted 298 U.S. cases of serious reaction, approximately half of them fatal.

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The FDA got the National Academy of Sciences to set up a committee of topflight experts to study Chloromycetin.

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In desperation the rescue teams switched to a more powerful antibiotic, lacing a dozen squid with about 50 tablets each of Chloromycetin and pushing them down Physty's throat.

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