Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things in medicine seemed as new and fashionable as nerve-cutting operations. All over the U.S., surgeons were cutting nerves in various parts of the body in the hope of relieving ulcers, hand sweating, high blood pressure, hiccups, drug addiction, schizophrenia. One hospital last week was booked solid for the next nine months with appointments for lobotomies (cutting nerves in the brain). There were similar waiting lists elsewhere, and many doctors were getting nervous about the whole subject. They asked: Has the nerve-cutting fad already gone too far; will people who are now getting their nerves cut some...
...Ulcers, there are two new palliatives: 1) a drug called asymatrine, developed by University of Georgia researchers, which generally stops intestinal spasms and pain; and 2) a synthetic, acid-neutralizing resin called Amberlite IR, which seems to have less disagreeable side-effects than alkalis or gels...
Against coronary thrombosis and embolism attacks, doctors used to be fairly helpless; standard treatment was to dope the patient, give him oxygen to relieve the strain on the heart and a drug to relax the blood vessels. In most cases, patients survived one attack, succumbed to a second...
...Myerson decided to try a simple prescription: he gave the patient a mild dose of a soothing drug (sodium amytal) to lower his inhibitions and make him talk, combined with a stimulant (Benzedrine) to keep him awake. Then he closeted the patient in a room with the patient's wife. When the doctor looked in again, some 45 minutes later, the patient was chattering like a machine gun. The doctor asked: "Do you recognize this woman?" "Certainly," snapped the patient, "she's my wife." A cure had been worked without psychotherapy...
...East Orange, N.J., Dr. Myerson's soothing drug treatment got partial support last week. An amnesia victim, a wandering farm hand who had been taken to a hospital, was treated with a dose of sodium pen to thai (a barbiturate similar to sodium amytal) and promptly recovered his memory...