Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bottle of Astringosol," suggests a Gold Coaster. "Then mutter, under your breath of course, 'got any weeds?' Naturally, you accumulate a staggering heard of Astringosol, but I find it an excellent chaser for my Camel. This cigarette problem is nothing short of a gold-mine for the small drug companies...
Thus, in 1830, wrote Charles Lamb; and thus, last week, felt most U.S. cigaret smokers. But there was little relief in sight. Across the land, men, women and even small fry continued to experiment half-heartedly with pipes. In Chicago, a chain drug store picked up a couple of hundred cartons at a Post Office auction and hauled them away, like so many square-cut emeralds, under bristling armed guard. In Manhattan, two frequently quoted women allowed themselves to be quoted. Said famed Wit Dorothy Parker: "I'm smoking whatever I can get-Strange Fruit, or whatever they...
...Infections. Some of the first infections against which Oxford's Drs. Mary Ethel Florey and Howard Walter Florey tried penicillin before introducing it as a drug (TIME, May 15) were conjunctivitis, infected eyelids, infected tear sacs. They used a penicillin salve, cleared up cases which had lasted for years...
...Journal's summary concludes that the electron microscope can eventually help doctors figure out a drug or vaccine to cure any infection...
...great scientific achievements of World War II is: 1) The jet-propulsion engine. 2) The robot submarine. 3) A better explosive than TNT. 4) An insecticide that promises to conquer mosquitoes, bedbugs, roaches, flies. 5) A wonder drug twice as effective as penicillin...