Skin Reactions to Beta-blockers

criticism it would be a shame to miss seeing the unique niche this drug has in the treatment of urinary infections by organisms previously only susceptible to intramuscular therapy. We were fortunate in having some of the earliest clinical trial material of carfecillin and were therefore able to witness a number of occasions when its use cured urinary infections which would previously have been treated with a parenteral antibiotic. In particular, the life of a middleaged paraphegic was transformed by carfecillin. Previously he had been subject to repeated febrile episodes with malaise and sweating accompanied by the isolation of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa from the urine and treated by admission to hospital and intramuscular therapy. Though no antibiotic (including carfecillin) ever cleared his urinary tract of infection permanently, a course of carfecillin started at the onset of a febrile episode controlled it quickly, enabling him to remain at home. Eventually confidence in the therapy enabled him to take a holiday, his first since the onset of his illness two years previously.-I am, etc.,