Word: dilantin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...epileptics are "backward," 2) nothing can be done for epilepsy. The facts: epilepsy is no bar to genius-history's epileptics, according to present-day neurologists, include Caesar, Mohammed, Napoleon, Dostoevski; some 60 to 80% of epilepsy can be helped or cured by drugs (usually bromides, phenobarbital or dilantin sodium), surgery or change in living habits...
...difficult to stop a fit once it starts. But several drugs, taken over a long period of time, can cut down the number and force of convulsions, even eliminate them entirely. The drugs include the barbiturates, a promising new drug called sodium diphenyl hydantoinate (Dilantin), and the old-fashioned bromides. The last have one great drawback: in indiscriminate doses they cause "intoxication," skin rashes, hallucinations. A high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet has also brought excellent results, say the doctors, but it is unpleasant to take. In many cases hard exercise cuts down fits. If the fits are caused by brain...
...vacantly in his office winding spools of twine, fumbling with balls of tinfoil like a kindergarten child. His mental age, Dr. Fabing found, was just where it was when he left school: six years. Dr. Fabing tried giving Eugene daily doses of seven-and-a-half-grain tablets of dilantin sodium, a new treatment for epilepsy developed two years ago by Drs. Hiram Houston Merritt of Harvard and Tracy Putnam, head of Manhattan's Neurological Institute. Within three days, Eugene's fits stopped...
Dosed with dilantin every day, Eugene galloped through his first readers in three weeks, taught himself multiplication without help, learned to play ball, badminton and card games, dressed up for formal dinner parties, played gently with year-old babies. Within six months, said Dr. Fabing, Eugene's mental age had leaped from six to ten. His progress still continues...