Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...treated have lost most of their pain. The exceptions: one with lung cancer, one with "phantom limb" pain after an arm amputation. Best results have been in cancers of the face and neck. The surgeons leave the electrodes in place so that the patients can go home and lead drug-free, lives, as near normal as their disease will permit. They can return for treatment to destroy a further part of the thalamus if pain recurs...
Heading HOPE is an energetic, 38-year-old Washington, D.C. internist named William Walsh. One of the outgrowths of President Eisenhower's people-to-people program of 1956 to boost international ties, HOPE has already received "substantial" amounts (biggest donors: the drug companies), and Walsh is convinced that Consolation will sail on schedule, accomplish Ike's original idea. "This is going to have a tremendous impact," says Walsh. "We can do it in other parts of the world-there are four more hospital ships in mothballs. It's a cheap way of waging peace...
...record $21.6 million. Retailers across the U.S. were setting an even faster pace in 1959. Compared with January 1958, last month's sales were up 7.2% for Lerner Stores, 7.8% for National Shirt Shops, 11.5% for S. H. Kress, 17% for Franklin Stores, 18.2% for Peoples Drug Stores...
...Grand National," moaned Dr. Caroll M. Williams, professor of Biology, yesterday. Dr. Williams, who recently found in humans a juvenile hormone that may possibly control aging, has been engulfed by requests for what deluded octogenarians seem to believe is a "miracle rejuvenator," a "Peter Pan" wonder drug...
...Williams is now working alone night and day to analyze the purified hormone so that it can be synthesized, mass-produced, and tested on higher forms of life. He expects to finish his work "in a few months," barring interruptions. Members of all major American drug concerns, concerns, he notes, are working on the project in competition with him, and "it is hard to try to do research in the middle of all this confusion...