Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Drug manufacturers were making feverish claims that anti-histaminics (anti-allergy drugs) would cure the common cold, and they were selling their new medicines by the carload. But last week the American Medical Association, through its Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry, announced sternly that it "is not convinced that [present evidence] is sufficient to warrant the positive statements that are being made...
...relieved a lot of peptic ulcers with a combination of tricky operations. But for three years he had been looking for a way to get the same kind of result without surgery. Last week Duke's Grimson announced that he and two associates had succeeded-with a drug called banthine...
...their research to avoid surgery, Grimson and associates found an answer in banthine, a new synthetic drug which they had been testing on high blood pressure. Banthine, taken by mouth in tablet form four to six times a day, has the same effect as cutting the vagus nerve; it slows down stomach contractions so that food is retained there for as long as six hours, and it reduces the flow of corrosive acid...
...Grimson wants to test banthine in detail for another six months. Then, if it still looks good, he will ask the Food & Drug Administration to release it for general...
Proud of its color pictures, CBS has made every effort to show them to the public. A shrewd move was to make special cameras for televising surgical operations for Smith, Kline & French Laboratories, drug manufacturers. As a dignified publicity stunt, the drug house has shown surgical operations in color for the benefit of some 50,000 doctors in medical gatherings all over the country. Since black & white television gives little idea of a surgical operation, the CBS system has given many doctors their first glimpse of ultramodern techniques. Many of the grateful doctors are loud rooters for CBS color...