Word: drug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Opium. The Council decided to call two conferences on the opium traffic at Geneva, in November, 1924. One will consider the limitation of the manufacture of the drug to scientific and medical needs, the other will consider the strategy of a war on opium. It was decided to name a committee to prepare plans for the conferences...
...other States have more ambiguous laws relating to "obscene, vulgar and indecent" objects or written matter of "immoral purpose." Four States?Georgia, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina? have no legislation on birth control. One State?Connecticut?goes the limit, no exceptions, even to prohibiting the use of any "drug, medicinal article or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception...
...drug is a synthetic compound in the form of gray powders contained in gelatin capsules, soluble in water, and apparently administered by way of the mouth. Used in cases of pneumonia at the University of Rome and Italian military hospitals, it is claimed to have reduced the morality rate from 35% to 2%. Dr. Tomarkin's offer to treat the late Pope Benedict, who died from pneumonia, was at first refused by the Vatican authorities, but he was finally called in when the Pope's condition was desperate, too late to save the patient...
Following directly on the heels of the announcements of the Nobel awards for medicine and physics, comes a report from abroad of a young Swiss physician, Dr. Leander Tomarkin, who has apparently discovered, in a new drug called antimicrobum tomarkin, a cure for pneumonia. Results of experiments carried on in military hospitals and at Rome University indicate that the mortality rate of thirty-five per cent in pneumonia and bronchial pneumonia can, by the use of the drug, be reduced to less than one per cent...
...gentle gods have escorted away to the unknown distances those delightful old vocalists who sang Love Is a Beacon on Life's Stormy Sea. A series of lovely tinted views supplemented the singing. Some of those views may still be discovered in the postcard racks of small country drug stores...