Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There, a man named Ilidio Carlos Medina dos Santos had just read in his newspaper that a new drug, Varidase, might be just the thing for tuberculous meningitis. He wanted some, fast, for his little daughter Branca Maria...
...said that "the availability of larger qualities of the hormone for the future is assured." However, the need to improve the process, work out engineering details, and set up the equipment needed for large-scale commercial production will of necessity postpone the appearance of artificially produced cortisone on the drug market...
...geriatrics will probably starve, "† ¶ Three doctors at the Cleveland Clinic think they have found the connection between nervous tension and high blood pressure. They found that brain and nerve tissue can produce a hormone-like substance which gets into the blood, raises its pressure. The antidote: a drug called hydrazino-phthalazine. The discovery also explains why surgery (cutting the sympathetic nerve) sometimes fails to relieve high blood pressure-it doesn't always get to the root of the trouble...
...Chicago gynecologist found a new use for the pain-killing drug Edrisal: to kill the despondency which besets many mothers after childbirth...
Testosterone, a male sex hormone, is a fine thing when properly used. But the Food & Drug Administration warned this week that testosterone, ignorantly used, can stimulate the growth of cancers. The FDA was delighted that federal courts have barred two Los Angeles firms from peddling hormones without prescription...