Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five Cornell Medical School researchers, headed by Dr. Walsh McDermott, last week presented evidence in Science that penicillin can be swallowed any old way, not just in capsules to protect the drug from stomach juices (TIME...
Since 1912, bald, businesslike Dr. Lucas Petrou Kyrides (rhymes with Wheaties) has been grinding out inventions in a steady stream. His inventions, now totaling over 100, include a syphilis-curing drug (Mercurosal), the first U.S. process for making synthetic rubber from isoprene and butadiene, the first U.S. synthetic rubber tire (in 1913). As a research boss at St. Louis' potent Monsanto Chemical Co., Dr. Kyrides is one of the nation's top industrial chemists. But not until last week did he get his first public kudos: the American Chemical Society's first annual Midwest award for outstanding...
...best drug yet found for African sleeping sickness, according to U.S. Public Health Service doctors, is gamma (paraarsenosophenyl) -butyric acid. In tests conducted for U.S. troops in Africa, the new drug apparently cleared up early cases entirely, helped somewhat in late cases...
...Neostibosan, an antimony compound, seems to have cured eleven out of 33 Puerto Rican filariasis patients. Drs. Harry Rose and James T. Culbertson of Columbia University, who have given the treatments since last April, believe that the drug may eventually cure some of their other patients. (The disease sometimes results in the monstrous swellings of elephantiasis.) This is good news for U.S. troops in the Southwest Pacific area...
...Libby method: the drug is suspended in an oil (indigestible by the stomach) and enclosed in a capsule. In the stomach, the capsule dissolves and the penicillin passes into the small intestine in the oil, where it is absorbed by the blood...