Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swallowed as a tablet or inhaled as a gas, Benzedrine at first shrinks mucous membranes, raises blood pressure, quickens the heart, sharpens the wits. These effects are powerful enough to snap a schizophrenic out of his murky mentality (TIME, Sept. 14). Small doses of the drug maintain his intelligence. Overdoses, such as uninformed college students seem to be using, bring on dangerous after effects...
...discount at drug stores is not correct. The fact is that members are furnished prescription medicine at cost, whatever that may be. It is evident that a drug store could not exist any length of time by selling medicine at a 66⅔% ( discount...
...Addicts. At his famed colony of chimpanzees in Florida, Psychologist Robert Yerkes of Yale proved that other animals besides man could become drug fiends. With evident gusto, dapper Dr. Yerkes told the philosophers how he had made morphine addicts of two male apes eight years old. After the animals became reconciled to having their flesh pricked by dummy syringes, they were daily given one milligram of morphine per kilogram of body weight and the dose was increased to four milligrams (a much smaller intake than that of human addicts). Symptoms of addiction were increased "grooming" (scratching, skin picking, hair plucking...
...morning last week in Milwaukee, 64-year-old Fred Ernst Yahr arrived to begin another day's work at the Yahr-Lange Drug Co., of which he had been president, general manager and principal stockholder for 18 years. Before he reached his office he learned that none of the 115 employes in the seven-floor establishment was turning a hand in the interest of Yahr-Lange's prosperous wholesale trade. When he got to his desk, his chief accountant, his sales manager and his credit manager were waiting to tell...
...tourists, few minutes before, had joked gaily at the prospect of seeing a public execution of Chinese drug peddlers, had had to be restrained by police from taking photographs because "China must not be ashamed." But the six executions turned many a tourist pale & sick. With drawn faces they climbed into their cars, drove...