Word: demerol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...These poisons seemed to dissolve without a trace in the body of the victim, and for several decades all attempts to demonstrate their presence destroyed both the tissue and the poison. When toxicologists at last learned to detect them, a new problem had appeared with the synthetic alkaloids-Demerol, Dolantin, Pethidine and other modern sedatives. All of them are deadly poisons, and many of them cannot be detected by the tests that work for natural alkaloids...
...hospitalized, mainly for convulsions. Children are not the only victims: a Houston man was stung by a woolly worm's long back hairs when he picked up his golf bag; soon his whole left arm was throbbing with pain up to the armpit. Even with Demerol and Benadryl, he was still in pain and had a headache the next...
Died. Albert Henry Diebold, 91, a founder in 1901 and president until 1941 of Sterling Drug, Inc., who began business in Wheeling, W. Va., and with brilliant marketing and an unerring eye for mergers parlayed Neuralgine, an analgesic, into a $250 million-a-year business (Novocain, Demerol, Bayer aspirin, Phillips Milk of Magnesia); in Palm Beach...