Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drug which Dr. Matsner had in mind has no such effects, said he last week. More than that he could not explain. Reasons: English experimenters'" working with the substance have proved its efficacy on apes, whose reproductive mechanism functions exactly like women's. They are now testing it on humans, want to avoid public discussion until its usefulness is assured...
...three weeks. Ephedrine (a nasal astringent), which hay fever sufferers this month are using everywhere, similarly shot up 200% to $3 an ounce. Mandrake root, which Elizabethans considered a cure for sterility and druggists now use in physics, soared to $4.25 a lb. These convulsions in the minor Oriental drug trade last week were solely the effects of the war in China. Nor were they the only commercial effects in the U. S. To the confusion of economic isolationists, U. S. businessmen in many a more important occupation had occasion to notice how commerce reacts to a first-class...
...pharmacologists last year under the trade names "Prontosil" and "Prontylin," has been found effective in blood poisoning, gonorrhea, childbed fever, erysipelas, cerebrospinal meningitis and other bacterial diseases (TIME, Dec. 28, et seq.). Last week conservative bacteriologists of the National Institute of Health announced that this astounding new drug seemed to be a cure for an entirely separate class of diseases, namely, those caused by viruses. Among virus diseases are the common cold, influenza, infantile paralysis, parrot fever. Another disease due to a virus is "benign lymphocytic choriomeningitis," which was recognized as a distinct ailment only a few years ago because...
...before a formal complaint is issued that he will be good in the future. One of the chief criticisms of FTC is that these stipulations are sometimes used as a defense when the offender gets into trouble with other Government bodies such as the Post Office and the Food & Drug Administration. Famed was the case of the mail-order makers of Marmola tablets, a reducing compound. Driven out of business by the Post Office, the Marmola makers went in for national distribution through retail stores. FTC challenged Marmola's advertising but the Supreme Court held that...
...Colorado Springs, Colo., when Frank M. Gilbert gives his horse a drink, spectators gather. Animalover Gilbert's procedure is to take his steed to the nearest drug store, give him a soda through a straw...