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Show inite but limited therapeutic activity ac-tivity against human tuberculosis, tuberculo-sis, but there is much concern among workers in this field that their potential value may rapidly be neutralized if they are used improperly or indiscriminately by those not trained in the treatment treat-ment of tuberculosis," it stated. "The recent increase in the a-vailability a-vailability of isoniazid has brought this problem into acute focus." The editorial stressed that these drugs are not in themselves cures and, like other forms of chemotherapy chemo-therapy in tuberculosis, bust toe used as adjuncts to the time-tested measures of bed rest, collapse therapy and surgical procedures. "Moreover, as adjuncts they WARNS AGAINST MISUSE OF NEW ANTITUBERCULOSIS ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS DRUGS Chicago A warning against improper or indiscriminate use of three new antituberculosis drugs was sounded in an editorial editor-ial in the current (July 2G) Journal Jour-nal of the American Medical Association. The drugs are isoniazid ison-iazid (isonicotinic acid hydrazide) iproniazid and pyrazinamide. "These drugs have shown def- |