Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Medical researchers reported last week that they have found a sort of untran-quilizer-a drug that shows promise in treating mental patients suffering from depression. It is no new chemical, but iproniazid (trade name: Marsilid), first cousin of isoniazid and a veteran of the 1951 campaign against tuberculosis. When it was given to TB patients at New York City's Sea View Hospital, they became happy, ate ravenously, gained weight and started dancing in the wards (TIME, March 3, 1952). Iproniazid was soon retired from widespread use because it produced undesirable side effects, such as dizziness, constipation, difficulty...
Meanwhile, psychiatrists were having a field day with ataraxics-drugs to help bring about mental wellbeing. They found plenty of tranquilizers, excellent for overactive, agitated patients, but none that was much good for those at the opposite end of the scale, suffering from depression; in fact, some tranquilizers induced worsened depression. Then researchers hit on half-forgotten iproniazid. At New York's Rockland State Hospital three doctors gave the drug to 14 patients suffering from depression for which there was no cause to be found in physical illness, got good results in twelve, had to stop the drug...
...psychiatrists have tried iproniazid on a handful of office patients. They reported excitingly good results in cases of depression lasting as long as six years. But use of iproniazid for such patients is tricky: the drug is powerful and potentially dangerous. Strictly a prescription item, best used in hospitals, iproniazid is far from being everybody's happiness pill...
...General Shoe Corp. Chairman W. Maxey Jarman: "People are buying freely. Employment is good. Retail business will definitely be up this year. I can see no signs of a recession or depression." ¶ Walgreen Co. President Charles R. Walgreen Jr.: "There are no signs of a recession in the drug industry. We are experiencing the best year in the history of our business-both in volume and profits." ¶CJ Coca-Cola President William E. Robinson, just back from a swing through company plants around the country: "With the availability of goods high and profit margins smaller, the consumer goods...
Actuaries do only part of the job. The U.S. insurance industry also does more medical research on a wider variety of diseases than any other business, with the possible exception of the drug industry. The Prudential itself carries on dozens of different studies on everything from arthritis to high blood pressure, calculates how they affect the odds. For heart research alone, the Pru has a file of 25,000 electrocardiograms, one of the biggest in the world, which it uses to study the effects of the various heartbeat patterns (P, Q, R, S and T-Waves). Years...