Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Myanesin, a new synthetic drug developed from glycerin, relaxes muscles of patients during operations. Since last September the drug's developer, Dr. Frank M. Berger, has been working with Dr. R. Plato Schwartz to find new uses for the drug. If it relaxes muscles during operations, the doctors reasoned, would it also work on muscles tied up by disease...
...drug that is likely to ward off heart diseases...
...Aerosporin, newly discovered by the research team of Dr. George Brownlee at Wellcome Laboratory, England, is: 1. A new fertilizes which hastens plant growth. 2. A new antibiotic which proved in tests many times more effective than streptomycin. 3. A new drug which helps keep pilots of supersonic planes from "blacking out." 4. The cohesive substance which keeps atomic particles together. 5. A hitherto-undetected element existing only in the stratosphere...
...advertising ... It is difficult, at times, to tell . . . whether a book is about land-development or bust-development, about seafaring or suckling ... In my opinion, book advertising trades too much upon the sensational-when it has too little of the sensational to offer. If books were food or drug products-and some of them are all too often in the latter category-book publishers would be the principal recipients of FTC cease and desist orders ... The first requisite ... is a good product . . . One of the first things the publishers ought to do is to pick better books...
Search for the Gullible. Last week Food & Drug agents moved in on the block-long institute building at Malaga, N.J., impounded every Spectro-Chrome in the place. Then they trucked five tons of Ghadiali's instructions, magazines and correspondence to the Camden city incinerator. The FDA has also filed 25 suits to recover other known machines elsewhere, but has no idea how many others are still...