Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mindful of the 1,000,000 diabetics in the U.S., Congress voted that all insulin be checked by the Pure Food & Drug Administration for strength and purity. Reason: Last week the patent of the University of Toronto (where insulin was discovered) expired, and the University lost its exclusive right to oversee the production of insulin, which it has done without profit for nearly 20 years...
...remarkable drug for holding down chronic symptoms is Bulgarian belladonna, steeped in white wine. (An American substitute is now available.) In many cases the drug relieves insomnia, helps build up strength, improves speech...
Axis diplomats in Washington were a downcast crew. The U.S. could not let them leave until U.S. diplomats in Axis lands could leave too. Likelihood was that Ambassador Grew and his staff would get out of Japan by way of Russia and Alaska. But meantime Ambassadors were a drug on the market. In Washington the German diplomats bought trunks; the Japanese sent out for food, were no longer trusted by their grocer, and had to pass the hat to pay for it. They sat around the Embassy drinking whiskey gloomily. Their American chauffeur, driving out for the last time...
Died. Charles A. Whelan, 78, co-founder (with his brother) in 1901 of United Cigar Stores Co. of America which he sold in 1929 along with the Whelan Drug chain (founded by two of his sons); in East Orange...
...Best drug for early syphilis is still old 606 (arsphenamine), combined with bismuth, though the simpler mapharsen may ultimately replace 606. In comparison, the time-honored mercury is not much good. The first three injections must be given within ten days; the rest once a week for several years. After the first injection a patient becomes temporarily noninfectious. But Dr. Moore warned doctors against the common practice of sporadic injections; once started, treatment must be continued, for in early syphilis a little "may be worse than none." Reason: if no drugs are given, the body proceeds with its strong defenses...