Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Penicillin, the wonder drug of 1943, last week made headlines up & down the nation. Newspapers reported a wave of frantic appeals for the drug by blood-poisoning sufferers who suddenly learned that 1) penicillin might save their lives, 2) there was not enough to go around...
...city editor made the most of a journalistic opportunity, persuaded an official of WPB, which controls the minuscule U.S. supply of penicillin, to release some for Patricia. Four hours later a Journal-American car, with a convoy of screaming police sirens, drove up to the hospital with ,the drug. Next morning Patricia was much better...
...drug: dextroamphetamine (a form of benzedrine). The institute's doctors, reporting their discovery in The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, said they started their patients on a reducing diet of 900 to 1,300 calories, administered the drug only when hunger got the better of the patients. Backsliders then got about 5 mg. of dextroamphetamine an hour before each meal. (When necessary patients also got thyroid extract or a diuretic to help them get rid of liquids...
Result: in most cases appetites were so dulled that the patients returned to the prescribed diet without a pang. After a few months they learned to get along without the drug. To find out whether the drug had any bad effects, two of the doctors dosed themselves with it for 48 hours, during which they went without food, drink or sleep: the experience, they reported, was "exhilarating." But the doctors warned that the drug may be harmful to some people or in excessive doses, should not be taken except on prescription...
Sensational as the effects of the Kenny treatment have been, it never succeeds in cases of actual nerve destruction. But Dr. Miland Knapp of Minneapolis, ardent Kenny advocate, has recently raised a new hope. He found that use of the drug prostigmine together with the Kenny method hastened recovery by reduction of muscle spasm and incoordination. Dr. Russell Plato Schwartz of Rochester, N.Y., has had unusual success in preliminary trials with a new drug extracted from the South American erythrina bean...