Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lucky-she is the first U.S. plague case to be treated with sulfadiazine and she will probably recover. Her doctor, Albert Newton of Yreka, tried it on the advice of Dr. Karl Meyer who has cured plague-infected animals with it in his University of California laboratory. (The drug has also been used on human plague in South America...
...three worst enemies -shock, infection, delay. While still on the field-if possible-a man is treated to stop bleeding and reduce shock. He may get an injection of blood plasma, collected by the Red Cross back home, may take tablets of an infection-preventing sulfa drug which he carries into battle with him. Like many a Russian soldier, the U.S. soldiers are flown to a hospital, but Guadalcanal's hospital is "several hundred miles away" on another island...
Rodriguez & Sutherland first met in August 1940, at a newscasting audition for a Los Angeles drugstore chain. Fiery, mustachioed Sidney Sutherland, 52, retired journalist (New York Sun, Chicago Tribune), magazine writer (Liberty) and Hollywood scenarist, did not quite have what Thrifty Drug Stores wanted. Neither did squat, calm José Rodriguez, 42, native Guatemalan, onetime concert pianist, city editor (Los Angeles Herald...
Many of the sulfa-powders marketed in the U.S. were recently found to be contaminated with assorted bacteria (mostly harmless). Upshot: the U.S. Food & Drug Administration now requires all sulfa-powders to be heat-sterilized and carefully packaged. At least one person has already died of tetanus when unsterile sulfapyradine was used following a pelvic operation. Tetanus germs are among the group which sulfa-drugs do not affect...
...Chattanooga a want ad summarized the local situation: "WANTED: Registered druggist-young or old, deaf or dumb. Must have license and walk without crutches. Apply Cloverleaf Drug Store...