Word: adrenaline
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German. But procaine causes capillaries to expand. Thus, 1) an incision may bleed dangerously, or 2) the drug quickly diffuses into the blood stream and loses its local anesthetic effect. To overcome the bad features of cocaine and procaine, anesthetists use them in conjunction with epinephrine (also called adrenalin) which makes capillaries contract and holds the anesthetic at the spot where it is needed. But epinephrine throws some people into twitters. It may not be used intravenously or intraspinally...
Several years ago Dr. Manfred Sakel, 36, a University of Vienna psychiatrist, cured morphine addicts by dosing them with insulin. His theory: morphinism is due to too much adrenalin in the system; insulin counteracts adrenalin. By accidentally overdosing them with insulin, Dr. Sakel shocked some of his morphine patients into comas. When they recovered from the "hypoglycemic shocks," their personalities were remarkably changed. Since the problem of curing a schizophrenic is the problem of shaking up his ingrown personality, Dr. Sakel tried shocking doses of insulin on Viennese schizophrenics. Last week at the New York Academy of Medicine he frankly...
...When you are frightened," wrote doggy Albert Payson Terhune in Reader's Digest last summer (TIME, Aug. 17), "nature pumps an undue amount of adrenalin through your system. This throws off an odor . . . which human nostrils fail to detect. Dogs, however, hate it. It rouses some of them to rage; in others it inspires only contempt. Many an otherwise inoffensive dog will attack when that odor reaches...
...question. But Dr. A. J. Reich of Manhattan wrote to the American Medical Association for confirmation. Last fortnight A. M. A. replied in its Journal that Mr. Terhune's "established scientific fact" was baseless. Fact was, said the Journal, that "many hundred times the normal output of epinephrine [adrenalin] may be injected intravenously in dogs, and man, in the presence of dogs, with the latter showing no 'hate' or 'contempt' detectable...
Benzedrine is a synthetic colorless liquid, chemically related to adrenalin. Smith, Kline & French Laboratories of Philadelphia have a patent on the drug until 1950. Benzedrine is ordinarily used as a nasal spray or inhalant to reduce congestion due to head colds, sinusitis, rhinitis, hay fever, asthma. Larger doses of the drug cause restlessness, sleeplessness...