Word: demerol
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...synthetic, first made by Germany's I. G. Farbenindustrie in 1939, is an organic chemical with a freight-train name, known as Demerol for short. It is not yet on the market...
...three years Chemist David Climenko of Alba Pharmaceutical Co. has been checking Demerol's effect on animals. Last week in Boston, before the Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology, he reported satisfactory results. At the same time Dr. Robert C. Batterman of New York University told of using Demerol on 800 human patients. It quickly relieved postoperative pain, cut down the agony of arthritis and other diseases. Neither Chemist Climenko's animals nor Dr. Batterman's men & women developed any craving for the drug...