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When a drug first goes on the market it has two names--a generic or official chemical name and a brand name for merchandising purposes. Nembutal, for example, is a well-known sleeping pill made by Abbott Laboratories. Nembutol is its brand name; Sodium pentobarbital, its generic name. Under patent laws Abbott had exclusive rights to the manufacture and sale of Nembutol for 17 years. During that time it could charge whatever the traffic would bear since there was no competition. Abbott also sent out detail men--salesmen that all drug companies hire to promote their brands. "They wait around...
...Burack points out, PDR is an advertising vehicle--a fact most physicians don't know. The 1966 rate was $115 per column inch, so the gross value of the space that year was over $1,725,000. Nembutol is listed there, like the other brand names, and Abbott paid well for the privilege. In his book, Burack calls PDR "probably the shrewdest and most effective means by which the pharmaceutical corporations perpetuate their hold over doctors and patients...
...addition to Dunlop, the members of the new Committee of Seven are Herschel C. Baker, professor of English; Merle Fainsod, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor; Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History; George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry; Edward S. Mason, Lamont University Professor; and J. C. Street, Professor of Physics
...Boston Globe and the Record-American reported that Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson, and Abbott, who also designed Quincy and Leverett Houses, were charged with negligent inspection of the building by the Federal government...
Catinella beat another West Point foe, 3-2, in a vicious consolation match. Also fourth-seeded, Harvard's 177 lb. Jim Abbott was upset, 7-4, in the quarter-finals by Pete Thompson of Princeton. Bruce Goodman and John Eng lost their first round matches and were eliminated from the tournament...