Word: dinitrophenol
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...hundred Los Angeles women were known to be blind or partly so with cataracts last week as result of taking dinitrophenol to reduce. That drug, whose weight-reducing properties were first cautiously utilized by San Francisco doctors (TIME, July 31, 1933), is illegally and secretly sold in California under the following names: Nitromet, Dinitrolac, Nitra-phen, Dinitriso, Formula 281, Dinitrose, Noxben-ol, Re-du, Aldinol, Dinitrenal, Pre-scription No. 17, Slim, Dinitrole, Tabolin, Redusols. Against them Los Angeles Health Officer John Larrabee Pomeroy last week initiated an elimination drive...
...drug which most often causes granulopenia in the U. S. is amidopyrine (chemical name: dimethylamrno-phenyl dimethyl pyrazolone). Related drugs which Dr. Kracke also blames are: pyramidon, phenacetine, arsphenamine. neoarsphenamine, amytal compound, allonal, peralga, amidophen. Dinitrophenol causes the rapid oxidization of sugar and fat in the body. This year it killed at least two overeager fat-reducers (TIME, April 30). Dr. Kracke said he feared it would be exploited this winter as a weight reducer...
...Bortz was talking specifically about the latest weight reducing drug, Dinitrophenol, which burns up fat by speeding the body's metabolic processes. In so doing it may also produce nausea, itching, rash. Taken in overlarge doses, it brings violent illness and death. A full study of the drug has not been completed, but it has been established that some people are especially sensitive to it. Last week Dr. Bortz advised doctors to test their patients for two weeks with extremely light doses...
Drug companies have flooded the land with Dinitrophenol (usually under its right name, but one company calls it "Formula 761") and many a druggist sells it without prescription. Last fortnight two cases of sudden death from overdoses of the drug were reported to the Journal of the American Medical Association, one of a young woman in Los Angeles who followed directions on the box and died violently within a week...
...Dinitrophenol has temporarily cast a shade over other reducing drugs and compounds. Hundreds of them are on the market, with widely varying formulas, but the facts about them are simple. Prime fact is that all are either harmful, worthless or both. Most are simply laxatives, for it is possible to reduce weight by hurrying food through the system before it can be properly digested. Some compounds contain thyroid extract which, by speeding metabolism, does reduce weight but with much possible harm...