Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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France was down with the worst case of flu since the disastrous pandemic that followed World War I, killing an estimated 100,000 Frenchmen. The flu wave last week threatened to invade Britain, where doctors nervously checked up on their drug supplies. It had infiltrated Italy, where Communist propagandists proved that even a sneeze is a weapon in the class war. Cried Red Unita: "A slight cold, easy to catch these days, may have fatal consequences for the underprivileged, who generally lack . . . the money to buy aspirin...
Britain may build a new African empire because of a discovery announced last week: a new synthetic drug called Antrycide, to cure and prevent trypanosomiasis (related to sleeping sickness) in cattle. The drug will be used in a vast area of Africa, larger than the U.S., where profitable ranching has long been impossible because of tsetse flies which carry the wiggly protozoan parasite of trypanosomiasis to domestic cattle, horses and hogs...
Antrycide was developed by two young chemists, Drs. D. Garnet Davey, 36, and 39-year-old Francis Henry Swinden Curd (who was killed in a railway accident last November). In 1944 they were working on Paludrine, a drug for malaria. One of the compounds they tested proved slightly effective against trypanosomiasis. Three more years of work produced a related drug that did the job, with complete success on mice...
Some authorities on trypanosomiasis believe that Antrycide has not been tested enough, but last week all food-conscious Britain was cheering the empire-building drug. The Colonial Office predicted that African cattle raising will show positive improvement in four years and large-scale development in ten years. Said the Daily Mirror: "British Africa can become the largest meat-producing area in the world...
Human beings will still be used as guinea pigs. They will be needed for experiments, for many questions are still unanswered. Is there any drug that will do any good for a cold? Can a vaccine be developed for MRi? Just how long is a cold "catching?" What effect do low temperatures and wet weather have? The new test does not mean that a cure has been found for the common cold. But the search has been speeded...