Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Least disturbed retail group: druggists who are already operating under price control via local fair-trade laws which in New York apply to some 75% of all drug items...
...United Drug, Inc., after staring at subnormal profits statements for years, turned over a new leaf last week. It installed young Justin W. Dart, 34, as vice president and director and made him president of its Liggett Drug Co. subsidiary, largest U.S. chain of retail drugstores. Liggett has been one of United's vital assets but an unsatisfactory earner. Dart's job is to do something about...
Another sulfa drug (there are now over 1,000) may end epidemics of dysentery, one of the chief hazards of World War II. So announced Drs. Maurice Lee Moore and Charles S. Miller of Sharp & Dohme Laboratories at the Memphis meeting of the American Chemical Society last week. The drug, known as succinylsulfathiazole, is made from sulfanilamide and a fungus product. It was tried out on 40 patients at Johns Hopkins, produced no ill effects even when given in large amounts for periods as long as 16 months. Succinylsulfathiazole, said the doctors, may be important "as a protection for soldiers...
Malaria, most widespread and consuming of all human diseases, saps the strength of some 800,000,000 people throughout the world. Although there is no safe drug that directly kills malaria parasites (carried by the Anopheles mosquito), the chills & fever and other symptoms can be controlled by dosing with quinine, made from the bitter bark of the cinchona tree...
...develop new South American cinchona trees would take at least seven years. The world shortage of quinine would be less serious if the U.S. were able to produce large amounts of the synthetic drug atabrine, a coal-tar substitute for quinine, developed ten years ago. Almost as effective as quinine, atabrine is less suitable for large-scale use, for it is more toxic, should be given under a physician's supervision...