Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manufacturers of vaccine against Asian influenza did better than they had expected: last week, well ahead of schedule, two companies turned out half a million shots and (with an eye to public relations) allocated most of the vaccine to meet civilian demand. Philadelphia's National Drug Co. was ready with 260,000 straight anti-Asian shots, plus 60,000 shots of polyvalent vaccine, compounded for use against three types of flu recently current, including the Asian. Lederle Laboratories of Pearl River, N.Y. had churned out 180,000 doses, set aside half for the armed forces (which will do their...
...least four to five days with a special variety of sniffles, aches, pains and high fever. In some areas, between 10% and 20 % of the population may be out of action all at once. Reason: It is now clear that despite the best efforts of medical men and drug manufacturers, only a small part of the U.S. population can be protected in time against the new flu virus that filtered through the Bamboo Curtain last April. For the latest, disquieting report on the invader and on the defense measures being planned, see MEDICINE, Asian Flu: the Outlook...
...Lilly & Co. and Pitman-Moore Co. of Indianapolis; Lederle Laboratories of Pearl River, N.Y.; National Drug Co. and Merck Sharp & Dohme, Inc. of Philadelphia; Parke, Davis & Co. of Detroit...
Tablet Toothbrush. A tablet-form tooth cleanser called Twigger will be marketed nationally by Dallas' Lanpar Co. drug house. An effervescent tablet that can be chewed and dissolved in the mouth, Twigger was devised by Dr. D. Gale Collins, a Santa Fe dentist. Price of a box of 90 Twiggers...
...There is danger in the carefree use of the most popular "happiness pill," meprobamate (trade-named Miltown and Equanil), warned the A.M.A.'s Council on Drugs. Side effects, including allergic reactions, shaking chills and fever, have been reported; the drug should be used under medical supervision, with the same care as other tranquilizers...