Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Andrew Conway Ivy, who ranks high among U.S. physiologists and still higher as a vice president of the University of Illinois and booster of its medical schools, was on the spot last winter. For 18 months, he had been doing hush-hush research with a drug named Krebiozen which seemed to have helped a few cancer patients for a while. He wanted to go on and find out whether Krebiozen was really valuable, and that would take years...
...Krebiozen is no ordinary drug. It is a secret concoction from the blood of horses, made after the animals have been given a secret "stimulator." The maker of Krebiozen was an emigrè Yugoslav researcher named Stevan Durovic, who worked with the financial backing of his rich brother Marko. The Durovics were in the U.S. on visitors' visas which were about to expire. They were threatening to finish their work abroad, slap Krebiozen on the market...
...Chemists experimenting with wild yams in Mexico City have progressed a long way toward producing commercial quantities of the scarce wonder drug...
...Manhattan meeting of the New York Academy of Sciences heard last week about a drug that may have more effect on mankind than insulin or penicillin. The announcement dealt with work done by Dr. Eli D. Goldsmith, chairman of the academy's biology section, on a chemical that stops pregnancy in mice without doing any apparent harm to the animals. Given to the mice in their diets after they have become pregnant, it causes the fetus to be "resorbed" without any apparent harmful effect...
...Goldsmith is also trying to determine whether the drug will work as a safe contraceptive. If it does, he will try it on larger animals than mice before considering testing it on humans. The drug was carefully left unnamed by Dr. Goldsmith. But it may be the "oral contraceptive" that Dr. James Bryant Conant, President of Harvard, predicted at a meeting of the American Chemical Society last month...