Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a new drug, sponsored by Manhattan's Neurological Institute, joined the list: dl-glutamic acid hydrochloride. It is helpful only in petit mal (temporary loss of consciousness) and psychic attacks (unreasonable behavior with amnesia). It is not effective for convulsions. The drug probably acts by acidifying the blood-a beneficial effect formerly achieved only by an extremely unpleasant fatty diet...
After 75 years disturbedonly by babies crying for it, Fletcher's Castoria (soothing, laxative) was last week in the biggest dither in the drug trade. A mysterious emetic had cropped up in some of the medicine and nauseated a few takers. The preparation's makers, the Centaur Co., a division of Sterling Drug, Inc., temporarily withdrew Castoria from the market...
First warning came when two North Carolina doctors told the Food & Drug Administration that tried & trueCastoria had made their little patients ill. Centaur Vice President Joseph Bohan at once ordered up a bottle, tasted it, got sick. Four assistants tried it. They got sick...
...radio networks were so impressed they did the broadcasting free of charge. News commentators gave more publicity to Castoria's plight. Said Assistant Food & Drug Commissioner Dr. P. B. Dunbar: "The action of the Centaur Co. is a splendid example of public spirit which will increase public confidence in the company...
Both Centaur and the Food & Drug Administration were stumped to find the guilty emetic. Company chemists analyzed a sample of Castoria, found only what was to be expected in a compound of alcohol, senna extract, bicarbonate of soda, peppermint, anise and flavoring. But when the chemists confidently took a swig, they presently upchucked...