The Physician's Page Vol. Antibiotic Therapy M any of us are resistant to different ideas until we can objectively view, rationally comprehend or mentally picture the new concept being offered. This is also true of approaches to medicine.
Antibiotic therapy is such an approach.
It is not new, but it is different from the traditional treatment of rheumatic diseases. Antibiotic therapy, in this article, is understood to be that based on tetracycline and certain other drugs which are antimycoplasmic. This is true of treating anything else as well. But antibiotic therapy necessitates treatment and prescribing from a conceptual view of the disease mechanism in order to be able to properly titer the dose and deal with individual expressions and differences in patients' diseases. The concept is based on the premise that no major disease was ever understood or conquered until its cause had been identified.