Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Malaria, the most widespread and destructive, is caused by a microscopic parasite, the Plasmodium, carried by many species of the Anopheles mosquito. The chills, fever and delirium of malaria may recur for many years. Malaria can be treated by constant doses of quinine, and a newer drug, stabrine. But there is no immunization against malaria. Warned Dr. Meleney: "We may expect a tremendous morbidity and mortality from malaria in the armed forces during the present conflict...
...three concoctions endorsed by Hauser-"Slim" (containing the harmful drugs senna, bladderwrack, buckthorn bark), "Correcol" (consisting of weeds and gum), and Hauser Potassium Broth (a mixture of alfalfa, okra. beet tops, etc.)-were seized and declared by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration to be "misbranded and sold under false and fraudulent claims...
...badly sunburned researcher, Ralph Robertson Mellon of Pittsburgh (no kin), remembered the soothing effects of natural sulfur waters, tried Hydrosulphosol, a drug made of powdered sulfur and water, as a substitute. So pleased was he that he started experiments on real burns...
...brand new drug that prevents fatal blood clots and a radical use of ice to treat damaged circulation were discussed in a review of treatments for circulatory ills made last fortnight before the New York Physicians Association by Dr. Samuel Silbert...
Sweet Clover. The remarkable drug known as dicoumarin may even reduce to zero the 6% of post-operative deaths caused by thrombi (fixed blood clots) and emboli (wandering blood clots). Dicoumarin is found in spoiled sweet clover, was originally tracked down as a poison which causes hemorrhages in cows, is now synthesized...