Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Barney, 37 and greying, turned up in the United States Attorney's office in Manhattan to report himself a drug addict. It started, said he, when he was in a Guadalcanal hospital, with shock and malaria. A couple of his hospital corpsmen friends had given him dope (not part of the services' regular malaria therapy, but a rare resort in cases of extreme migraine). As months went by, his headaches recurred; somehow (perhaps with forged prescriptions), Barney got more dope. Says he: "I got in over my head...
Technically charged with possessing narcotics, but not under arrest, Ross will go to the U.S. Public Health Service hospital for drug addicts, in Lexington, Ky. The hospital was established a decade ago to end the old policy of throwing addicts in jail like criminals. Of the 792 narcotic patients now at Lexington, 650 are under prison sentence for narcotics-law violations, 42 are on probation, 100 are volunteers (like Ross...
Streptomycin, an antibiotic containing a germ-killing soil organism called Actinomyces griseus, is especially effective against certain deadly "gram-negative" infections for which there was no known cure. It does the job in many a case where penicillin and the sulfa drugs fail. But it is expensive: about $16 a gram (average treatment: six to ten grams). Since the drug's discovery in 1944 by Rutgers' Microbiologist Selman A. Waksman, it has been tested against a wide variety of diseases by a National Research Council committee headed by Boston's Dr. Chester S. Keefer. Their report...
...Mayo Clinic, Dr. H. C. Hinshaw, after finding that streptomycin stopped the growth of tubercle bacilli in guinea pigs, gave the drug to 24 hopeless human patients in advanced stages of pulmonary tuberculosis. Nineteen improved (though four relapsed after treatment stopped). Dr. Hmshaw's conclusion: though streptomycin arrests, it does not eradicate T.B will be valuable only as a supplement to other forms of treatment. Other findings-Tularemia (rabbit fever). A seven-day treatment with streptomycin (one gram a day) promptly cured 63 out of 67 cases...
...streptomycin also had some failures. Against typhoid fever, undulant fever and Salmonella (certain kinds of food poisoning), streptomycin showed "no dramatic results." The drug is also mildly toxic in doses above one gram a day: 20% of the patients treated had headaches, fever, skin rashes or dizziness...