Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tridione, a new synthetic drug, had a successful tryout against the petit mal (small attack) form of epilepsy. Tridione can also dull pain. Its strangest effect: to a patient under treatment with tridione, everything appears to be lightly coated with snow...
...horses. They're so beautiful. They were my toys. And now this calamity after such wonderful success. . ." Said Trainer Smith, admitting that he had long used a mixture of salt, vinegar and ephedrine (to clear up horses' heads): "The quantity and quality of ... the so-called drug ... is infinitesimal and could not have affected [the horse's] racing condition...
...Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, was awarded one-third of the $30,000 Nobel Prize in medicine; sharing it with him were two less publicized British penicillinists-Sir Howard Walter Florey, organizer of the research team which found practical means of extracting the capricious drug, and Dr. Ernst Boris Chain, the team's chief research genius...
...immediate reaction of oldtime lepers and their doctors to any new drug is disbelief. They have seen all sorts of medicines-gold solution, diphtheria toxoid, etc.-touted and then dropped. Even chaulmoogra oil, which seemed to do some good, although it was often painful or made patients sick, has fallen into disfavor (TIME, Feb. 26, 1940). Recently the regime of a tuberculosis sanitarium-rest, good food, good care-has become the only standard treatment. By this regime alone, some 10% to 20% of leprosy cases are eventually arrested. "Cured" is a word leprologists have never dared...