Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Partisans. He heard businessmen call the Partisans sincere fighters, worthy of support. He spent an afternoon with a Partisan brigade commander in a red-roofed, limestone house in a mountain town, going over maps, plans, requirements. The Partisans made full notes of all they told him-to forward to Drug (Comrade, pronounced "droog") Tito,† Marshal of the Partisans, at his Bosnian headquarters...
...Drug Tito, De Luce found, "has welded his guerrillas into a tightly disciplined and hotly idealistic force that shows more enthusiastic determination than any outfit I've seen since I met Major General Vassili Novikov's Caucasus Army. . . . It's a people's army, and presumably susceptible to most of the mistakes . . . ex-civilians usually make. But its spirit is amazing and exhilarating. It knows how to shoot straight...
...Strauss's idea is to alter the flutter ratio by stiffening the fluttering parts with small areas of scar tissue. These are produced by tiny injections of an irritating drug, sylnasol, which produces small fibrous areas wherever injected. He tried sylnasol on seven married patients. Treatment was repeated every week for five or six weeks. The only discomforts reported were a feeling of thickness at the back of the throat or a five-minute earache...
...Acute diarrhea kills thousands of babies yearly. Doctors do not know its cause or cure. But Drs. Allan H. Twyman and George R. Horton of Indianapolis reported in the Journal of the A.M.A. last week that they had obtained hopeful results on newborn infants with succinylsulfathiazole, a sulfa drug used in some other digestive infections. Of eleven babies treated, only two died (the doctors think those two might have been cured with larger doses). Of eleven untreated babies, four died and the others were sick twice as long as the sulfa-treated ones...
...acridines were the wonder drugs of World War I-but the doctors did not know it. When they were introduced in 1917, surgeons were prejudiced against using chemicals in wounds, because the wound antiseptics then in use were too caustic. But World War II doctors have taken up the acridines again. Last year Major G. A. G.Mitchell and Lieut. Colonel G. A. H. Buttle of the Royal Army Medical Corps used proflavine, now the most popular acridine, on 80 serious wounds in North Africa, reported in the Lancet that "proflavine has proved more effective in controlling or eliminating the infection...