Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...August 1936, Dr. Ralph Robertson Mellon of Pittsburgh* stood at the bedside of a patient stricken with deadly peritonitis. In desperation he fed her a German-made drug, never before used in the U. S. The patient rapidly recovered. Dr. Mellon then plunged into an intensive study of the action of this drug, a combination of benzene, a sulfur compound and naphthalene, called prontosil. He learned that: 1) one of its three ingredients, naphthalene, was medically worthless; 2) sulfanilamide, a cheaper U. S. product, composed of the other two ingredients, would do everything prontosil could do. Last fortnight, together with...
...Brains need oxygen, which they get from the blood. At the time of birth, a child's breathing may be disturbed and his brain starved of oxygen because his mother took too much drug to allay the pains of childbirth. Said Dr. Frederic Schreiber of Detroit: the difference between a living infant with a brain damaged from this cause and one that is born dead is probably only a matter of degree...
...Hiram Houston Merritt & Tracy Jackson Putnam of Boston announced that a little used drug, diphenyl hydantoin, completely prevents, or reduces the frequency of attacks of epilepsy in 77% of patients with the severe type. It soothes, does not cause drowsiness...
...phenolphthalein would, of course, penetrate any lesion in the mucosa. To test for intestinal lesion a patient who had a carcinoma of the mouth, Dr. Woldman piped the drug by that lesion through a straw...
...crack China War correspondent, reported taking a day off from the battle front to explore panda territory. Excerpts: "Pandas are not rare. . . . Giant panda prices, f.o.b. Chengtu, range between 25 and 180 American dollars per head, although the latter is regarded locally as fabulously high.*. . . Panda pelts are a drug on the market. Yesterday I was offered four, at 8 American dollars apiece. . . . Since the bottom may drop out of the giant panda boom, the natives have been tipped off to be on the lookout for live specimens of the golden-haired monkey, another animal peculiar to this region which...