Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...connection between the nerve ends and the muscles they serve. First muscles affected are those of the head and neck; then the limbs are paralyzed, then the abdominal muscles, last of all the diaphragm and between-rib muscles which do the work of breathing. (The danger of the drug is that just a little more than enough to relax the abdominal muscles may paralyze breathing-therefore only expert anesthetists should use it.) Besides relaxing skeletal muscles, curare contracts the gut, making it easy to handle and replace...
...chemical that makes cattle bleed to death, Dicumarol, is now saving human lives. If a man takes Dicumarol capsules before or after an operation, dangerous blood clots may not form in his veins. The discoverer of the drug, Dr. Karl Paul Link, professor of biochemistry at the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station, recently told the Harvey Society at the New York Academy of Medicine about...
...whose neuroses appear serious at the out set. Colonel Grinker says that this treatment can be used only at base hospitals or psychiatric station hospitals. But many conscientious, front-line psychiatrists use some of the uncovering techniques. For this treatment, a soldier is given food, rest and some drug (e.g., sodium pentothal by vein) to loosen his tongue. Beside him in a darkened room the psychiatrist persuades him to describe the horrors he has endured, relive the episodes that hurt his inner being...
...most important patient in the world was getting well last week, somewhere in the Middle East. A sulfa drug (probably sulfapyridine) had again saved Prime Minister Winston Churchill from pneumonia (first time: last February). Before leaving for a good rest at an "unknown destination" (Axis radio reported him in Aswan), Mr. Churchill issued what the New York Times called "one of the most poignant and personal communiques ever issued from No. 10 Downing Street." It was the best advertising sulfa drugs ever...
...feel so ill in this attack as I did last February. The M & B ... did the work most effectively. There is no doubt that pneumonia is a very different illness from what it was before this marvellous drug was discovered...