Word: benadryl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...county medical examiner testified that Whiting had died of an overdose of drugs, including methaqualone, Benadryl and a Librium-type drug. However, a pharmacologist hired by Whiting's mother said that the amount of methaqualone in Whiting's bloodstream need not have been fatal. Left unexplained was how Whiting's blood came to be on a pillowcase, towel, tissues and the washbasin in his own room, as well as on a blue sweater he had apparently been wearing. Also unaccounted for were the severe cut on the back of his head and scratches on his stomach, chest...
...quarts of coffee-all the Levantine habits went public. He became to mental illness what Segovia is to the guitar. In clinical detail, Oscar replayed his repertoire of classical and flamenco hypochondria, apostrophized his nervous collapses ("chaos in search of frenzy") and multiple devotions to paraldehyde, Dexedrine, Thorazine, Demerol, Benadryl and insulin. Before he disappeared into a series of sanatoriums, he turned out a catalogue of malice...