Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Announced in Manhattan last week was a cure for penicillin's handicaps. Dr. Raymond L. Libby, American Cyanamid Co. biophysicist, reported that he had perfected a method of administering the drug by mouth. Now the way has been paved for treatment at home...
...used to hang on Göring's coattails have switched their allegiance to Himmler. The Gestapoman showed his contempt for Göring by impressing large clumps of air-force personnel into the SS and Volksgrenadiere. Göring is said to have taken up his old drug habit once more...
Smell of Earth. Last week came news of a new antibiotic that may be as great as penicillin. Called streptomycin, it is a product of the mold-like Actinomyces griseus, which helps to give newly turned earth its distinctive smell. The drug was discovered by stocky, energetic Selman A. Waksman, 56, Russian-born microbiologist at the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station in New Brunswick, and dean of U.S. antibiotic researchers. (The first to use the word antibiotic for these new drugs, he was writing on the subject years before penicillin's rise...
...Penicillin Streptomycinate?" Helped by money from the Commonwealth Fund, the Federal Government and big drug firms, Dr. Waksman and his dozen students now spend most of their time on streptomycin. Many other laboratories are experimenting on animals with the new drug, working out production methods. In six months there may be enough for a thorough tryout on humans...
...hospital, then to the monastery at Storrington in Sussex-a country of Roman roads, rolling fields, abandoned chalk mines, rooks and sheep. Later, at the Franciscan monastery at Pantasaph in Wales, where he spent three years Thompson was forbidden money, even for postage stamps, lest he spend it for drugs He walked through the hills, wrapped in an ulster that extended from his neck to his ankles-"gentle, humble and good anc very conscious of his powers, but neve vain or proud." He never entirely cure himself of the drug habit, developed tuberculosis, wrote almost no poetry in his last...