Antibiotic and method of preparing same

Claim 1

A MEMBER OF THE CLASS CONSISTING OF AN ANTIBIOTIC AGENT AND ITS SALTS WITH ACIDS, SAID MEMBER EXERTING AN INHIBITING ACTION ON THE GROWTH OF MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS VAR. HOMINIS, MYCOBACTERIUM RANAE, BACILLUS MYCOIDES, STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS, ESCHERICHIA COLI, PROTEUS VULGARIS, DIPLOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE, KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE AND BACILLUS SUBTILIS AND A LESSER INHIBITING ACTION ON THE GROWTH OF STREPTOCOCCUS FECALIS, BODENHEIMER''S BACILLUS, PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA, SHIGELLA PARADYSENTERIAE AND SALMONELLA SCHOTTMUELLERI, SAID ANTIBIOTIC AGENT CONSISTING OF THE ELEMENTS CARBON, HYDROGEN, NITROGEN AND OXYGEN, AND (A) FORMING SALTS WITH ACIDS, (B) IN THE FORM OF THE HYDROCHLORIDE BEING SOLUBLE IN WATER, SLIGHTLY SOLUBLE IN LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT ALCOHOLS AND GENERALLY INSOLUBLE IN OTHER COMMON ORGANIC SOLVENT, (C) IN AQUEOUS SOLUTION EXHIBITING ABSORPTION BANDS IN THE ULTRA-VIOLET REGION OF THE SPECTRUM HAVING MAXIMA AT ABOUT 268 MU AT PH 1 AND PH 7 AND AT 281 MU AT PH 14 AND HAVING MINIMA AT ABOUT 226-228 MU AT PH 1 AND PH 7 AND 240 MU AT PH 14, AND (D) IN THE FORM OF THE HYDROCHLORIDE EXHIBITING ABSORPTION BANDS IN THE INFRA-RED REGION OF THE SPECTRUM WHEN SUSPENDED IN SOLID FORM IN A HYDROCARBON OIL, AT THE FOLLOWING FREQUENCIES, EXPRESSED IN RECIPROCAL CENTIMETERS: 3200 (BROAD BAND), 2908, 2845, 1660, 1495 (SHOULDER), 1465 1380, 1230, 1150, 1050 AND 750.