Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stories that will help him in his Harlem district. As a friend of the working man he called for a Congressional investigation and witnesses. Quickly formed in Manhattan was a National Gauley Bridge Committee to which such notables as Professor Haven Emerson of Columbia University, Socialist Norman Thomas and Drug Manufacturer William Jay Schieffelin subscribed. They paid expenses to Washington of a few Gauley Bridge residents to testify before Congressman Marcantonio's Committee, which by last week had heard the following evidence...
Horton is the master of simplicity, credulity, and timidness in all his parts but his combination of the trio in "His Night Out" seems to surpass many of his previous efforts. As a pill-eating hypochondriac who buys medicine for a chain of drug stores, Homer is the meekest soul imaginable. But this same meekness and utterly unsophisticated manner makes him one of the most hilarious when he undergoes a third degree and thinks he is playing "Twenty Questions" with the police force...
...their treatment Drs. Klingmann & Everts deprive the addict of morphine suddenly and completely, give him small, frequent doses of the drug used in twilight sleep, scopolamine hydrobromide. After the third or fourth dose of scopolamine, wrote they, "the patient develops a mild, low mumbling delirium. He is quite busy, and often amused, by figments of his imagination and the occasional visual hallucinations of a not unpleasant variety-picking at imaginary insects on the bed and the like. He cooperates very well, obeys commands promptly and partakes freely of food and drink, and the enteric and urinary elimination is good...
After 48 hours of scopolamine, Drs. Klingmann & Everts stop its effects by using the antagonistic drug, pilocarpine which stimulates sweating and salivary and pancreatic secretions. After five doses of pilocarpine the patient "is mentally clear in every respect," and cannot recall any physical or mental distress. He has no desire for morphine, but has a healthy appetite. After six to eight weeks of body buildup, helped along by small doses of scopolamine and big doses of mental hygiene, patients are cured. Most stay cured...
...Manhattan in 1830 by John T. Boyd. It delivered letters, competing with the U. S. Post Office in what was then an entirely legal business. The company printed its own stamps, which were good for any address within the city limits, set up its post boxes at various drug stores, employed 150 letter carriers. Out-of-town mail was delivered either to the Government post office or to the Pony Express. In 1880 when the U. S. prohibited private mail-carrying, Boyd's went into a general delivery business. As the U. S. parcel post service developed. Boyd...