Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...probably the best thing that ever happened to U.S. drug addicts. By shutting off the sources, chiefly Asiatic, of smuggled dope (morphine, heroin, opium and derivatives), the war in Asia has for several years been cutting into the illicit drug traffic at a rate U.S. preventive agencies never hoped-to achieve. The result, says the annual report of the U.S. Commissioner of Narcotics, is that drug addiction has reached an all-time low because many drug addicts (there are an estimated 45,000 in the U.S.) have been forced to take cures...
Gonococcic Arthritis (a frequent product of gonorrhea) is the easiest form to cure. It usually settles in the knee, ankle or shoulder and cripples about one-fourth of its victims. But early dosing with sulfa drugs brings "striking improvement" within three days. Gouty arthritis-from which more & more U.S. men are suffering-is not curable, but colchicine (a drug from a European lilylike plant) relieves it "spectacularly," although colchicine is of no use in treating any other form of arthritis...
...shoppers, by & large, take price control for granted. Few flat-heeled snoopers have appeared to plague retailers as expected. In food stores housewives do scan the posted ceilings. But few people look over the elaborate listings in drug and department stores. Such quiet acceptance by the public is the best indication that ceilings are working...
Selling all sorts of conventional summer needs from bathing suits to antiperspiration creams, drug stores are feeling a big part of the boom. The demand for women's cosmetics and notions is especially great. And at the soda fountains, if students keep drinking at their present rate, they will probably set an all-time record...
...widely touted "cure" for athlete's foot should not be sold to the public, announced the Food & Drug Administration. Reason: this particular mixture, composed of camphor and phenol (carbolic acid) "is capable of producing necrosis [gangrene] and is too dangerous for indiscriminate use." According to the Administration, phenol-camphor should be sold only on a physician's prescription, must be labeled POISON, and be plastered with warnings, instructions, first-aid directions in case of accident...