Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conservative New England Journal of Medicine recently jumped on "the erroneous conception that malaria can be eradicated by means of a five-day treatment with the synthetic drug, atabrine." Attacking an article ("Enter Atabrine-Exit Malaria") written by Paul de Kruif in the Reader's Digest, the Journal pointed out that there is as yet no sure cure for malaria, that the disease and its problems are anything but simple...
...first U.S. trials of a sulfa drug was made in 1936 on a sinus infection of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (he was cured). Since then interest in sulfa cures has centered around other infections-pneumonia, gonorrhea, streptococcus diseases. But last week Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat Specialist Roland F. Marks of the University of California Medical School announced that sulfathiazole treatment for maxillary sinusitis (inflammation of cheek sinuses) improved 70% of his patients in three or four weeks. He recommends that doctors try the drug before resorting to surgery...
Farming is a business that changes slowly - except in wartime. This year's seed catalogs, agriculture college bulletins and reports of new research tell an exciting story of improved plants that promise higher yields of foodstuffs and fodder, of forgotten crops returning to favor, of drug plants formerly imported, now vital crops...
...Lever Bros., General Mills, General Foods, Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, Carter Products, Miles Laboratories, Sterling Drug...
Chicago's A. C. Nielsen Co., whose food, drug and liquor indexes are gospel to U.S. merchandisers, announced the coming of age of its Audimeter, a gadget installed in radio sets that keeps an exact record of the radio's tuning. Seven big-time clients-and their ad agencies are already using the Nielsen Radio Index based on the gadget...