Word: drug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effect of the drug is somewhat similar to hypnosis, inhibiting all the special senses of the body except hearing, and paralyzing the judgment and critical faculties. When a patient in this state is plied with questions, Dr. House claims, the auditory centers "set off" the chain of memory, and the replies disclose what actually happened, because the patient is powerless to contrive any deception or rational defense. Dr. House used the drug at San Quentin, the California penitentiary, on three prisoners, convicted of murder, grand larceny and various crimes. The stories told under the influence of scopolamin " proved" the alleged...
Human Wreckage is a movie of the drug traffic. The producers would have us believe that the traffic is national; in fact, that the nation is moving down a one-way street to a Potters' Field for dope fiends...
Divorce. If you are a gum chewer, female, happily married to a drug clerk, this picture will reveal just what is going to happen when the family fortunes rise and your man suddenly accepts a position as general manager of the chemical factory. You will move up to a small edition of the Ritz in the Social Register section and he will promptly begin staying late at the club. You will catch him having lunch with a vapid vampire and soon he will request a divorce. Then you will go to your father who, fortunately enough, owns the chemical works...
...drug was discovered by Dr. Walter A. Jacobs and Dr. Michael Heidelberger, of the Rockefeller Institute, in 1915, after 63 distinct combinations had been found failures. It is somewhat similar in structure to arsphenamine (neo-salvarsan), the best specific for syphillis yet found, which was devised by Ehrlich, of Germany, and Hata, of Japan, after several hundred fruitless trials. Studies of the action of tryparsamide on animals were made by Dr. Wade H. Brown and Dr. Louise Pearce, of the Institute staff, and in 1920 Dr. Pearce went to the Belgian Congo, where she used it extensively in the treatment...
...they take to the training tables to fatten. The rest have to fight for scraps anywhere on the outskirts of the campus. I am so finely adjusted that the balance must be easily disturbed, I think, one way or another. At any rate, when I went today to the drug store for my usual luncheon of a banana and a marshmallow, I felt my gorge rise. However, knowing the importance of a regular, calculated diet I finally downed...