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...Chapel Hill, N.C. Born in Austria and educated in Poland, he began his career with Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. in Switzerland before coming to the U.S. Sternbach collected 241 patents in his career; he also developed the tranquilizer Librium, the sleeping pill Mogadon, Klonopin for epileptic seizures and Arfonad to control bleeding during surgery...
...give the brain surgeon a relatively dry field for delicate operations inside the skull and to cut down blood loss, a drug called Arfonad will soon be marketed by Hoffman-La Roche. Inc. In hundreds of cases it has lowered blood pressure safely and by just the right amount. Helpful in other operations, especially removal of tonsils or adenoids, is Adrenosem (S. E. Massengill Co.), which controls bleeding from the smaller blood vessels...
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