Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Another drug made by a microscopic organism showed signs of becoming important last week. The Journal of the A.M.A. published an editorial on streptothricin, derived from Actinomyces lavendulae, a mold-like bacterium. Features of Streptothricin: 1) besides attacking many Gram-positive (blue-staining) bacteria, it attacks many of the Gram-negative (red-staining) against which penicillin is almost powerless-germs of typhoid, dysentery, etc.; 2) it is safe in therapeutic doses...
...hospital, 55% were useful members of the community at the end of the study; 2) of the untreated, 58.8% were able to leave the hospital, 40.5% were useful members of the community. Only four insulin patients died during treatment, and only one death was directly traced to the drug...
...President Roosevelt's grandfather, was an old-time opium smuggler, a member of something rather like our own Rum Row which operated off the New York coast a few years ago. The ships ran the stuff from India into China, whose emperor had seen the ravages of the drug among his people and was trying to saw them...
...trouble with the wonder drug penicillin is that it stays only a brief hour or so in the bloodstream, is then lost, chiefly in the urine. Two ways of making the precious drug do double-duty were announced last week...
...prolong penicillin's stay in the blood, Army Captain Monroe James Romansky and Technician (4th Grade) George E. Rittman suspend the drug in a mixture of beeswax and peanut oil and inject it into a muscle. They find that the suspension maintains a good level in the blood for six or seven hours after injection and keeps appearing in the urine up to 32 hours. The drug is extracted from the urine with banana oil, from the banana oil with a special phosphate solution...