Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About 7 p.m. Hudson Randall was in Milligan's drug store on Dansville's Main Street, talking about the wreck over a malted, when the phone rang. Druggist E. T. Milligan answered. The man on the other end of the line was Pete Ellis, night rewrite man for the United Press in New York...
...Drug Notes...
...Professor Harry Warren Anderson of the University of Illinois's horticulture department has made a new drug, clavacin, from mold. He thinks it "may be more useful" than penicillin because, in test tubes, "it kills all bacteria killed by penicillin" and more besides. He has cured some plant diseases with clavacin but has yet to make tests on animals...
...Thiouracil is a white powder with a bitter taste which two groups of Boston doctors are using successfully to relieve the fast heart rate, shortness of breath, nervousness and shakiness of patients with overactive thyroid glands. The doctors think the drug acts by preventing the gland from making too much hormone...
...unenviable job of deciding who should and who should not get penicillin was Dr. Chester S. Keefer, of Boston's Evans Hospital. He is chairman of the National Research Council's committee on chemical therapy, to which WPB turned over the rationing of the drug. Because it is especially effective in treating battle-wound infections, most of the meager supply (amount: a military secret) goes to the armed forces...