Oral Administration of Aureomycin in the Treatment of Urinary Infections

IN A previous communication1 intramuscular injection of aureomycin hydrochloride was reported to be not only a highly effective antibiotic in a variety of urinary infections but also, in many cases, curative after other antibiotics had failed. Owing to the pain caused by the intramuscular injections, even when the drug is given in a 1 or 2 per cent procaine solution, a subsequent series of 26 patients were treated by aureomycin given orally.ObservationsThese cases comprised an unselected group of 26 acute and chronic urinary infections and included 5 with chronic renal insufficiency. Seventeen patients had had prior treatment with . . .