Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Promising Drug. Dr. Horton Corwin Hinshaw of the Mayo Foundation also had some news for the Buffalo meeting. Tests on 65 patients had proved that streptomycin definitely arrests TB. It looks like "the first clinically feasible" drug for use in TB, said Dr. Hinshaw...
Streptomycin is slightly toxic (but no more so than the sulfa drugs, which do not halt TB) and makes patients rather dizzy. Though it suppresses the disease, it does not actually kill the germs. Patients who are taken off the drug do not continue to improve, sometimes relapse...
Just marketed, and discussed last week in the Journal of Allergy, was another new hay fever drug called Benadryl. Experiments have indicated that Benadryl is an all-or-none drug; it gives complete relief to some 50% to 85% of allergy victims, helps the rest of them not a bit. When it works, it relieves both rashes and runny noses, sometimes makes patients drowsy, must be taken every few hours in capsule form...
Still another new drug, Pyribenzamine, has given similar results. Like Benadryl, it suppresses allergy symptoms by acting against histamine-a substance which is released in the blood stream and causes tissues to break out as rashes or wet noses (or so the latest allergy theory goes). Anthallan, in contrast, behaves more like ephedrine, the well-known drug which gives relief by shrinking the mucous membranes...
Died. Louis Kroh Liggett, 71, founder of United-Rexall Drug Co. and the Liggett drugstore chain (502 stores); in Washington. A Scottish-Dutch boy from Detroit whose business career started inauspiciously when he was arrested for painting rows of red footsteps on the sidewalk leading to his first shop, he went on from there to help create the great American corner drugstore. His letters to the trade were famed among druggists. Sample: "Dear Pardner: . . . our Diarrhoea Cure is a great thing. Try it yourself. I have...