Word: drug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Statistics made public during the past fortnight indicate how widespread is the hygienic use of soap, tooth paste, shaving preparations, and so forth, in a typical U. S. city?Milwaukee. Editors of Milwaukee newspapers sent reporters to the drug stores of the city to learn how extensive is the use of cosmetics...
Teeth cleansers 97% used?tooth paste 90%. A drug store had to carry at least 17 brands of the 83 exploited to him?Colgates's, Pepsodent, Iodent, and so on. Only 7% of the population used tooth powder; 12% mouth washes, of which there were 39 different kinds...
Treatment. No known drug will kill the parasite. The patient should take castor oil or calomel (under medical supervision), then epsom salts and intestinal antiseptics. Thereafter the doctor tries to build up the patient's constitution so it can kill off the trichinae. The disease is rarely fatal, yet always uncomfortable...
...Phil continued, "What do you think this girl's done? All morning I've been trying to buy her a present. I tried earrings, brooches, beads, laces, lingerie, perfume and everything else this sacred city holds. Not a thing would she take until she got to a drug store, and then she made me go in and buy her four cakes of Ivory Soap...
...others show evidence of poisoning so promptly that the treatment has to be abandoned. . . . "The gist of the matter is, then, that we have a treatment which brings at least temporary relief to one person in five who takes it, but that the remedy is extremely dangerous; that the drug is difficult to prepare, impossible to keep, and therefore for the present must be handled only by those who are familiar with its use. This means that all patients who desire to avail themselves of this treatment must go to Liverpool and place themselves under the care of the group...