Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moving to Dallas, Faiman was indicted for illegal practice of medicine and for assault on his first wife. These troubles did not interfere seriously with his wholesale drug business, which he called "Physicians' Prescription Products...
Poison for the Girls. In 1940, the Federal Food & Drug Administration was conducting a drive against "abortion pastes." During a routine checkup, an inspector discovered that Faiman was selling a violet-colored, sweet-smelling paste called "Metro-Vac" containing a poisonous metallic salt. It induced abortions all right, just as many powerful drugs will. But the FDA considers the preparation one of the most dangerous in existence. If the active drug gets into the bloodstream (as it often does), the patient dies...
John Thurmond became Tillman's attorney and boss of Edgefield County. One day, when a drummer for a drug company used "hot language" about John being a Tillmanite and threatened John with a knife, John shot him dead. The jury's verdict: not guilty of murder...
...Motley combined the nebulizer with a "cycling valve"-a sort of artificial breathing apparatus developed for the Air Force. With it he forces air, or oxygen, into the lungs of silicotics. The air passes through the nebulizer, picking up the drug mist. When the lungs are full, the valve goes into reverse and empties the stiffened lungs more thoroughly than the victim's breathing muscles...
...report also recommended that the University provide wider specialist service, perhaps with the cooperation of the Medical School, suggested that a University drug dispensary be set up, and asked for free chest X-rays and the "same deference" that the Department doctors would accord to "paying patients...