Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With few supplies from war-bound Asia and Europe, U.S. drug addicts now depend almost entirely on Mexico's poppies for morphine and heroin...
...cluttered laboratory at Columbia University, boyish, grinning Dr. William von Eggers Doering modestly admitted that he and his partner, Harvard's Dr. Robert Burns Woodward, had been at it again. This time they had found a way to produce large quantities of quinidine, a war-scarce drug widely used for heart ailments...
...hitherto derived chiefly from a variety of the cinchona tree, growing only in Java) from quinine itself. Since widely used atabrine has largely displaced quinine in the treatment of malaria, part of the stockpile of quinine can thus be turned to good use by converting it to the scarcer drug...
...matter how it was taken, penicillin promptly turned up in the blood. When unprotected penicillin was given to twelve pneumonia patients, they got well just as fast as they would have on injections. Only hitch: dosage must be five times the amount required when the drug is administered by injection. But WPB announced last week that there will soon be plenty of penicillin for everybody...
...first issue succeeded surprisingly well, though cattlemen may scratch their heads over such lines as: "It was that they were there that held distances off"; and Londoners will probably be unmoved by the fact that the Owl Drug Store in Phoenix now stands where the Central Methodist Church used to. But both Londoner and cattleman should enjoy Neil E. Cook's recollections of embracing a girl in a steel-stayed corset: "like putting your arm around a bunch of lath...