What Tetracycline Can Teach Us About Vacations

The way doctors responded to green teeth has lessons for today's crisis

Tetracycline in a broad-spectrum antibiotic. First prescribed in the late 1940s, tetracycline became so popular that it was known as the “house-call antibiotic,” according to the late Dr. Robert S. Mendelsohn, M.D. In his book, Confessions of a Medical Heretic, Mendelsohn describes how it was given out like candy for a wide variety of infections in both…