Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Supplies of opium and quinine are shrinking so rapidly that the Government has stored three years' supply of each in the vaults of the Treasury Building in Washington. Opium is perhaps the most important drug used by doctors. Formerly, the U.S. imported over 150,000 Ib. of opium a year from Turkey, Yugoslavia, Germany; opium poppies are not commercially grown at all in the U.S. Quinine, a specific for malaria, comes from the bark of cinchona trees in the Dutch East Indies; no substitute is quite so good. Other dwindling drugs: ^ Belladonna, made from the deadly nightshade, was formerly...
...Digitalis, a powerful heart stimulant used as a folk remedy for centuries, is derived from the purple foxglove. Most of it was imported from Germany, Belgium, France and Italy, but none has entered the U.S. since last January. Digitalis is one of the most difficult drugs to manufacture: foxglove leaves, which contain the drug, begin to deteriorate as soon as they are separated from the plant, must be dried at once at high temperatures, then powdered. There are foxglove farms in about ten places in the northern U.S., capable of producing 1,000 Ib. an acre...
Sulfathiazole is "the most important sulfonamide drug in use at present." It is a powerful weapon against pneumonia, staphylococcic infections and a great range of streptococcic infections. Resultant anemia and cyanosis are "less marked" than with the use of sulfanilamide. But sulfathiazole has other drawbacks: 1) it causes fever, skin rash, inflammation of the eyes more severely than other sulfa drugs; 2) it must be used for a relatively longer period of time, thus increasing danger of complications...
Sulfadiazine seems to be "rather non-toxic." It is "very promising at the moment and may prove to be the next step in the sulfonamide ladder." (Last week Perrin Long of Johns Hopkins, top-flight sulfa specialist, announced that this drug will be on the market by early fall. Said he: "I have good reason to believe it will supplant all sulfa drugs now being used...
Soon many of Detroit's 400,000 school kids were running about with defense-stamp albums. Next the large chain stores-A. & P., Kroger, Woolworth, Penney, etc.-hung out red, white & blue signs, began selling stamps like cigarets. The Cunningham Drug chain spent $1,600 on newspaper ads, nearly burst with patriotism when daily bond sales in its 125 Michigan stores hit $750. Kroger's eight Lansing stores rang up $80 daily. Last week 12,500 Michigan stores were selling bonds; by mid-September there...