Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whose father founded England's Euthanasia Society 22 years ago, had touched off a debate on the subject in the British press with his bland statement in a Rotary Club speech that he had recently given a suffering patient, near death from cancer, a lethal dose of a drug, after she had "made her peace with God" and settled her affairs. "What I did . . . was to give her a drug to keep her asleep until she died," explained Dr. Millard. Many other M.D.s approved, and Methodist Weatherhead rallied to their cause. But, added Weatherhead, "it is not fair that...
Green Thumb. In Detroit, police found longtime Drug Addict J. Papp standing on the grass in the center strip of the Willow Run Expressway holding a shovel, some fertilizer, and a cigarette package full of marijuana seeds...
There are some cases where a carefully chosen antifever drug is what the doctor should order after thorough diagnosis, Dr. Done concedes. But in general he agrees with Manhattan's late Physiologist Eugene F. Du Bois: "Fever is only a symptom, and we are not sure that it is an enemy. Perhaps it is a friend...
Three years ago there was not a single antidiabetic drug that U.S. doctors could prescribe generally, and of two under test, one (carbutamide) was dropped for fear of liver damage. Diabetes victims were slaves to insulin and the needle. Last week 515 experts gathered in Manhattan under the auspices of the New York Academy of Sciences for the second symposium in seven months on the several drugs now being promoted: three on general prescription,* three being tested on patients under research safeguards...
...happenstance that gave Indiana its unacademic professor was drug-manufacturing Millionaire Josiah Kirby Lilly Jr.'s decision to give his huge rare-book collection-20,000 first editions, thousands of manuscripts-to the university (TIME, Jan. 23, 1956). The single gift made Indiana an important rare-book center, and the school needed a curator. Lilly recommended Randall, whose 20 years as head of Scribner's rare-book department had made him one of the U.S.'s most knowledgeable authorities-and fastest-moving speculators-in an intense, inbred field. The dealer was hired, and with the backing...