Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thiouracil is a synthetic drug which slows metabolism, the rate at which the body burns its fuel-food. Recently Dr. George Van Der Noot and others of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station mixed 0.25% of this biological fire extinguisher in the feed of gilts and barrows (young female and castrated male hogs). The results were cheering to farmers. The slowed-down hogs invested their food in fat instead of burning it up in rooting. For each 100 Ibs. of weight gained, they ate 27.5% less feed than hogs that were deprived of thiouracil...
...long as foolish people with pains have hopes of feeling better, quacks and charlatans will flourish. Last week Associate Commissioner Charles W. Crawford described some of the cure-alls that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration has found on the U.S. market in the past year. Among them...
...battery-operated device called the "Electreat" for giving a harmless electric shock. Before the manufacturer was enjoined by the Food & Drug Administration, "Electreat" was represented as helpful for goiter, kidney trouble, heart pain, broken bones, childbirth paralysis and deafness. Price: $19.50. Sales: 4,000 a year...
...prosecute the charlatans who "invent" such gadgets, Food & Drug has to get legal evidence-from clinical tests, from physicians, or from the families of patients who have been harmed or killed. Prosecution is rarely easy. Inventor Ghadiali, for one, escaped with a $20,000 fine and an injunction to get out of business...
Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, tough and able pal of Hermann Göring (and like him a onetime drug addict), never made any bones about his ruthlessness in war, except for the standard excuse of "military necessity." He was proud of having ordered the bombing of helpless Warsaw and of surrendered Rotterdam. He was "very happy" for the opportunity to try to blast Coventry...