Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lascoff's special gift to his profession was his recipes-to a pharmacist, a recipe is not a combination of drugs (that is the physician's province) but the method of making the combination hang together. Dr. Lascoff collected recipes old and new, developed many of his own. He was on the U.S. Pharmacopoeia's committee for the last four editions (a new one is published every ten years), started and edited the American Pharmaceutical Association's Recipe Book through three editions, and edited Drug Topics' column of advice to druggists...
...Something Simple. The tune of Lili Marleen has the simplicity, tinged with poignancy, which has characterized many of the most enduring popular songs (Madelon, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, etc.). It begins by impressing its listeners as musical beer and sauerkraut, ends by becoming a habit-forming musical drug. With an ump-pah accompaniment, it is a march. Changed to ump-da-dump-dump, it becomes a tango. In either case, the strains are of a kind which easily attach themselves to romantic memories and the pathos of separation...
From the meeting of the National Wholesale Druggists Association in Chicago last week came an astonishing fact: at least a fourth of all retail drug sales are synthetic vitamins or vitamin concentrates. They are now the largest single class of products handled by wholesalers...
...Queens Hospital has been a proving ground for new treatments. Says Dr. Larsen: "The literature and the drug houses often exploit something that eventually proves to be worthless. We were able to publish the first adverse report in America on the uselessness of mercurochrome as a specific cure for streptococcus infections...
...down the U.S., butchers faced the same problem. Steaks, roasts, chops, all highpoint meats, were a drug on the market. Many a butcher took advantage of OPA's concession that point values may be cut if stocks are in danger of spoiling. Too many butchers took advantage: OPA debated canceling its rule and letting the honest dealer's meat spoil-steaks, chops, liverwurst...