Current Status of the Clinical Use of Antibiotic-Vitamin Combinations

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Abstract
THE therapeutic value of antibiotics in many of the heterogeneous infections to which man is susceptible has been amply documented and does not require elaboration at this time. Recently, the suggestion was made that administration of vitamins in combination with antibiotics may prove more beneficial than antibiotics alone. The "therapeutic vitamin formula" that has been used in combination with antibiotics is the one tentatively suggested in the bulletin Therapeutic Nutrition, which was prepared with the collaboration of the Committee on Therapeutic Nutrition of the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council and published in 1952.1 The conjectural nature . . .