Word: ciba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dysentery is endemic, use such home-grown remedies as guava juice and seeds, guava-leaf tea, cactus pear seeds. Medically more accepted remedies: bismuth and paregoric, or in well-diagnosed cases under a doctor's care, the newer antibiotics. Currently popular is a new nonprescription tablet made by Ciba Pharmaceuticals called Entero-Vioform (an antiseptic containing iodine). A lot of these treatments, Mexicans hope, may become unnecessary as a result of the chemical warfare in the markets. Everyone was cheering the campaign last week except the vegetable vendors. Their complaint: the disinfectant withers the outer leaves of lettuce...
...this man mad?" asked State of Mind (a new publication by the Ciba pharmaceutical company) in connection with this case history...
...passing phenomenon. Mississippi's Dr. Veronica Pennington finds that the most enduring tranquilization of state-hospital patients comes from reserpine; its effects persist as long as a month after the last dose has been administered. To cut down the cases of depression caused by reserpine, one manufacturer (Ciba) is combining it with a second drug, Ritalin, designed to give a lift...
...Biggest U.S. supplier, under the trade name Serpasil, is Ciba Pharma ceutical Products...
...most active year since World War II's end, with average prices up 24% in 1954 and almost every Swiss stock climbing to new alltime highs. Nestlé Alimentana Co. (food and chocolate) was up 20% from 1953; Sulzer Machine Works up 35%; Switzerland's Ciba chemical company, helped by the new drug "Serpasil," used to combat nervous disorders and high blood pressure, jumped from $650 a share...