Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...native Budapest, Dr. von Meduna was one of the first to use shock treatment (with the drug Metrazol) for psychoses. He tried carbon dioxide with no success. Soon after he settled in Chicago in 1939 (and dropped the "von"), Dr. Meduna decided that psychoses were too deep-seated to reach with carbon dioxide. But neuroses offered him a promising field...
...Extension of Medical Care (NPC). Though it describes its activity as a "grass roots crusade," not one individual, physician or otherwise, appears on the required list of donors of more than $500. Instead there are the names of 29 corporations--virtually every large patent medicine and proprietary drug business in the country. Apparently, either the AMA "urged" these firms to contribute, or as Senator James Murray suggests, "Such companies fear a loss of customers when people will go to the doctor instead of a drug store...
...Harvard graduate schools will continue to educate leading lawyers, college professors, and civil servants of the future. To these men the University will have a new importance. No longer will they recall Harvard as the place where they lived in a dingy rooming house and ate in drug stores, while studying under some of the world's leading scholars and teachers...
Most of Dr. Smith's patients were able to leave the hospital after only seven to 14 days, some to go home, others to an orthopedic hospital where the retraining of impaired muscles could begin sooner. Dr. Smith does not recommend giving the drug to patients who have the severe forms of bulbar or bulbospinal poliomyelitis, or to those in iron lungs...
...doctors also reported an indirect benefit. Moist hot packs have been the standard treatment for polio pain. Besides being messy, packs keep the nurses overworked. With the drug, nurses can spend more time on other ways of making their patients more comfortable...