Antibiotic Combinations

The opening remarks at the Fourth Annual Symposium on Antibiotics held recently in Washington called attention to the "distinct and dynamic trend toward combined antibiotics" and suggested that a new era in the antibiotics age may be beginning.1 These remarks received considerable attention and publicity. However, although they only presented some data without analysis or criticism, the very fact that they were made by one with considerable prestige and authority in the field had the effect not only of acquiescence but even of dignifying and encouraging the trend and the direction into which it is being channeled.The trend toward . . .