Word: drugged
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Manhattan Psychiatrist Frederic Wertham had undergone, while conscious, two serious operations for dangerous blood vessel conditions in his legs. Due to the nature of his illness, scopolamine, the "truth drug," was given instead of an anesthetic. While the surgeon's knife cut into his flesh, Psychiatrist Wertham enthusiastically dictated to a hovering stenographer a stream-of-consciousness description of his mental processes...
...Iranophile Arthur Upham Pope, thanks for an eloquent and sincere piece of special pleading. TIME was misled into exaggerating Iran's venereal disease and drug addiction rates, was dead wrong about the Gulistan Palace. While sympathizing with the young Shah's difficulties, both public and personal, TIME believes its information on them may be more up-to-date than Mr. Pope's. TIME hopes that Iran will triumphantly survive its current travail, resume its "constructive and precious contributions to world civilization" too long suspended...
...important results of wartime research were announced last week: ¶ SN 7618 is an antimalaria drug described by OSRD as "five or six times better" than atabrine. It relieves acute attacks faster and may be taken weekly, instead of daily. Unlike atabrine, it does not stain the skin or cause nausea. It costs no more to produce...
...evil smoke rose from Peiping's Forbidden City. By order of the National Government, a public bonfire was consuming 800,000 ounces of confiscated opium. China's great drive against the drug traffic was under way again...
...penicillin. Hundreds of U.S. and British scientists have searched for years, trying to find out. They still don't know for certain. But the U.S.-British findings, summarized in Science, gave hope of two important possibilities: 1) penicillin's active ingredient might be synthesized to make the drug much more plentiful; 2) the ingredient might be altered to make the drug more effective...