Word: belladonna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left foot dragged the ground, he developed a stoop. He suffered from an infected sinus, swollen glands in the neck, continual headaches and stomach cramps. To relieve these pains, his physician gave him a proprietary drug compounded of strychnine and belladonna. It was called Dr. Koester's Antigas Pills...
...cream and reciting snatches of patriotic poetry to his wife. She dreamed of passion when not stuffing herself with lush pastry. Grandson Franz-Ferdinand was goggling at a peep show entitled: "For Men Only . . . Piquant Photographs." Granddaughters Wally and Adrienne were in the boudoir, shining up their eyes with belladonna. In short, the Austrian Empire was on its last legs...
Department of Agriculture plans call for 500 acres of belladonna to be planted this year in east central states, notably Pennsylvania. In 1939 scarcely a handful of belladonna seed could be found in the U.S., but that was carefully grown and made possible a good 1942 crop whose product, used for surgical therapy, was above U.S. Pharmacopoeia standards...
...remarkable drug for holding down chronic symptoms is Bulgarian belladonna, steeped in white wine. (An American substitute is now available.) In many cases the drug relieves insomnia, helps build up strength, improves speech...
...over 150,000 Ib. of opium a year from Turkey, Yugoslavia, Germany; opium poppies are not commercially grown at all in the U.S. Quinine, a specific for malaria, comes from the bark of cinchona trees in the Dutch East Indies; no substitute is quite so good. Other dwindling drugs: ^ Belladonna, made from the deadly nightshade, was formerly imported from Yugoslavia, Italy, Russia. A minuscule amount is grown in the U.S. During World War I about 300 tons a year were produced at home, but after the war the business did not pay. It is slowly picking up again, may produce...