Word: dilantin
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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...