Antibiotics have revolutionized the practice of medicine. The magic bullets have been used to fight the bacteria that cause many of man's ill including veneral disease, tuberculosis, stomach uler, mastoiditis and other common infections. However, bacteria that once yielded so quickly to these wonder drugs have learned to resist the antibiotic onslaught. Today, infections that were once easily cured are not responding to the usual treatments. We have abused antibiotics to the point where we must now go back to the lab and begin research to develop a whole new generation of drugs. Also explores the use of antibiotics in agriculture and the possible side effects it has on new strains of resistant bacteria. Includes looking at some of the new uses that are being found for the most important weapon ever developed for medicine arsenal.