Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...particularly of the scrotum. The number of military cases runs into the hundreds, mostly jungle-fighting marines who have been evacuated to U.S. hospitals. The Navy has described filariasis as the "hardest single thing" facing its doctors. But last week the Journal of the American Medical Association announced a drug which attacks the parasites causing the disease...
...treatment was developed in experiments on Virgin Islanders by Dr. Harold W. Brown, of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He gave twelve patients daily injections of an antimony compound (lithium antimony thiomalate). In all but one case, the drug destroyed all or nearly all the microfilariae in the blood in less than a month. A recheck four or five months after treatment showed no increase in the worms. Though the drug did not kill all the mother filariae in the glands, Dr. Brown thinks that repeated treatments, killing their offspring, may dispose of the mothers...
...drug has some toxic effects on man (vomiting, a skin rash), but Dr. Brown thinks they are not so bad as mumu...
...year later he was selling bootleg liquor in his three brothers' chain of Oklahoma City drug stores (Oklahoma...
Shoppers in Dallas, Texas, checking at newsstands, bars, drug stores and hotel of the lobbies, failed to find a single package of the so-called top brands-Lucky Strike, Camel, Chesterfield, Philip Morris, Old Gold. Big jobbers reported that ship ments from factories were from 10 to 50% "below normal...