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...Bromo Quinine (Grove Laboratories, Inc.) retain a faithful but shrinking following. They have been crowded to the side of druggists' counters by supposedly more sophisticated products of the antibiotic, antihistamine age. A current favorite is Coricidin (Schering Corp.), combining APC with a small enough dose of the antihistamine Chlor-Trimeton to be sold without prescription. If the customer does not know what he wants, many druggists recommend this. Competitive runners-up: Dristan (Whitehall) and Super-Anahist (Anahist Research Laboratories). Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) has become popular, though its value is largely unproved...
...Encouraged by improvement in about two-thirds of 2,100 mental patients treated with tranquilizing drugs-chlor-promazine and reserpine (TIME, June 14, Nov. 8)-New York state authorities decided to make them available for all suitable cases among the 112,000 in its state hospitals. Not cures for any mental illness, the drugs make patients more responsive to other forms of treatment...
Stronger Drug. A new drug for such allergies as hay fever, hives and asthma was announced by a six-woman, two-man team headed by Dr. Richard Tislow of Schering Corp.'s laboratories in Bloomfield, NJ. The drug is called Chlor-Trimeton. In experiments on animals it proved to be 50 times as strong as some drugs now used to combat histamine (the substance thought to be released in the body as part of allergic reactions). But its strength did not cause a corresponding increase in unpleasant effects, and it lasted much longer. Chlor-Trimeton is now being tried...
...experiments, conducted over a period of almost a year, were made with white rates which are exposed to carefully regulated amounts of four mixtures of the chemical fumes, each containing varying amounts of chlor...