Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their tireless search for beauty, millions of U.S. women have tried to improve the looks of their hair by buying and using up millions of "cold-wave" kits. Meanwhile, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration has been checking on complaints that the home wave preparations* cause skin rashes and other ills. Most of the complaints appear to have originated in beauty parlors, whose business has been noticeably hurt by home waving...
Last week, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Food & Drug Administration's Dr. Arnold J. Lehman gave the answer for which U.S. women have not bothered to wait: cold-wave kits are safe-if used as directed...
When two U.S. doctors went to Germany last summer to check on reports that a new chemical was showing promise in treating tuberculosis, they got an eye-opener. The drug had passed the promising stage, had shown impressive results over a two-year period in the treatment of 7,000 patients. And behind its discovery and development was the potent name of Professor Gerhard Domagk, 54, who won fame-and a 1939 Nobel Prize, which the Nazis would not let him take-as top man in perfecting the sulfa drugs...
...drug was Tibione.-The U.S. investigators were Dr. H. Corwin Hinshaw of Stanford University, and Dr. Walsh...
...most patients suffer only loss of appetite, malaise, and skin eruptions which look like measles. These side effects soon pass, and Tibione (unlike streptomycin) can be given to a patient for months or even years. It is taken in tablet form, usually four times a day. Because the drug was developed during the war, the German patents are no good and any U.S. manufacturer can make it. A few patients in U.S. hospitals have been dosed with Tibione; it will soon be tried on thousands...