Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bigger Than Life (20th Century-Fox) is the story of a medical case history wildly sensationalized with an eye for box-office returns. It will predictably outrage an army of doctors, frighten thousands of patients, and justifiably annoy drug manufacturers. The medical mischance it purports to describe was always rare, is now almost obsolete. The whole story is only remotely faithful to its original, one of The New Yorker's "Annals of Medicine" articles, a sober, sound piece by Writer Berton Roueche that was titled "Ten Feet Tall...
...return to safety); among civilians with comparable wounds produced by surgery, three-fourths complain. When Dr. Keats slipped such patients injections of simple salt solution instead of the narcotic they expected, 43% said that the pain went away. Other patients, told that they were to get "a new drug which was not very good,'' actually got a wallop of morphine; four out of 21 reported their pain no better, or actually worse, but when they got the salt solution an hour later, they suddenly felt fine...
...very real pain that follows many operations, and for the kind that so often bedevils the cancer victim, the experts agree that the best drugs are those of the morphine and methadone families. And the necessary doses can often be reduced by combining them with chlorpromazine. But because of addiction problems, the ideal drug to kill pain remains as elusive as the definition of pain itself...
Double Duty Drug. Most geriatricians use sex hormones more sparingly than Dr. Kountz, and some are dead set against them. They doubt that it does any good to get an old woman menstruating again, point to the danger of excessive vaginal bleeding, and the chance that erotic interests may be overstimulated in either sex. Dr. Kountz recognizes these risks-he has had such cases himself, especially in the early days of the treatment-but claims that it is all a matter of control; if the doses are right, so, usually, are the results...
...minutes later Morris Weinberger, drug salesman, got home from a drive with his other son, was told the news by his distraught wife. He promptly called Nassau County police headquarters. Neighbors and a swarm of detectives quickly spread the news through the fashionable Long Island suburb. Inevitably, someone called the New York newspapers...