Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Syphilis is a conquered disease in one sense only-that the chemical means to obliterate it are on hand. Its real conquest is a problem of lining up the patients. Standard syphilis-destroyer is arsphenamine, the drug salvarsan ("606") which Germany's Paul Ehrlich concocted 30 years ago. Mercury and bismuth compounds are also useful. But all these drugs must be injected regularly over a long period (18 months to two years) and many patients heartily dislike injections and monotonous visits to the doctor. When their gross symptoms disappear, they often abandon treatment forthwith, still harboring the pale lurking...
...Ranchman Gill's horse threw him. Three months later, in Washington, D. C., Richard Gill was flat on his back and rigid with spastic (muscle-contracting) paralysis. He remained on his back for four years. Doctors had no drug to combat his condition. One "eminent specialist" said that curare (pronounced koo-rah-reh), which contains a muscle-relaxing principle, might help. But U. S. doctors had never been able to get enough pure curare to experiment with its properties...
Detectifiction addicts know strange curare as the exotic drug which causes undiagnosable death. Richard Gill knew it as the dark brown, pitchlike poison brewed by the Amazon Indians, who use it to tip the darts of their blowguns. Some two or three minutes after a victim is hit by a curare dart, he dies...
...Good for accountants, dentists, department-store workers, insurance agents, beauticians, chauffeurs, drug store workers, lumbermen, salesmen and saleswomen, office machine operators, machinists, road builders, tool & die makers, soldiers & sailors...
Last fortnight, in the American Journal of Public Health, Drs. Charles Milton Carpenter and Robert Sturgeon Westphal, bacteriologists of the University of Rochester, shocked the medical world with some dismal after-facts on sulfanilamide and gonorrhea. It is true, said they, that the drug removes the symptoms of gonorrhea. But patients often harbor the germs long after they are pronounced cured, thus becoming "gonorrhea carriers," able to infect other people, though apparently hale themselves...