Word: drug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distinctions from orthodox therapy are fading, both because homeopathy has adapted much of the orthodox technique and because orthodox medicine has approximated some of the homeopathic ideas. Samuel C. F. Hahnemann (1755-1843) worked out the principle of similars-a large dose of a drug gave the same symptoms on the healthy human body as did a certain disease. Therefore that disease and that drug poisoned the body similarly. If a minute portion of the drug were given to a patient so diseased, the minute portion would stimulate the body to resist the disease. By "proving," by testing...
Representative La Guardia, New York's popular Italian member, spent the week trying to embarrass Mr. Andrews by "making beer with a kick" out of bottled goods purchased at the corner drug stores. The ingredients used were near-beer and a 3.76% malt tonic which Mr. Andrews had passed on last month as a legal manufacture (TIME...
Thrusting his point, Colonel Woods told that information of an expected drug shipment from one country to another now passes through such decorously deliberate diplomatic channels that the drug-running ship often outstrips by several weeks the information which would make possible its seizure. Smacking down his fist the Colonel cried: "Direct international police communication by cable would result in the seizure of almost all drug shipments...
...Climax. Seventeen years ago this play was given to Manhattan and seemed to please. As resuscitated to amuse the captious and discerning playgoer of the present, it seems simply another revival. In this season, after about 30 of them, revivals have become a drug on the Manhattan market...
...rooms clotted with music, the cool oasis of the lobby, and the long line of brilliantly-lighted cages wherein clerks work busily, adding up bills and putting diamonds away in steel lockers, these and the magazine-stall, shingled with bright colors, the crystal glory of the cigar-stand, the drug-annex with its hint of smells still unexplored-are all but promises, all but dramatic fingers pointing upward to that supreme enchantment of all, the bath...