Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Richmond, Va. doctors warned in the A.M.A. Journal that in addition to its other hazards, Antabuse (the drug to combat alcoholism, now officially renamed disulfiram) should not be given to alcoholics with heart trouble. Taken with a little alcohol, as it must be to bring on the reaction which makes patients swear off liquor, the drug puts a strain on any heart...
...rage, U.S. toothpaste makers are beginning to switch to "enzyme inhibitors," developed at Northwestern University's Dental School. The new theory is that tooth decay is caused by enzymes (i.e., chemical agents produced by bacteria) turning sugars and starches into acids. Last week Lambert Co., Colgate, and Block Drug Co. were already hard at work on new anti-enzyme toothpastes, hope to have their new products on the market this fall. Said the American Dental Association: "The value of anti-enzymes . . . still remains to be demonstrated...
...quarreled with Physiologist Andrew C. Ivy. vice president of the university, over the cancer drug Krebiozen (TIME, April 9, 1951 et seq.). Though Stoddard had scientific backing for his denunciation of the drug, many trustees felt that it was not up to him to belabor popular Dr. Ivy in public...
...would be a grave error, the Australian researcher warns, to believe that because man has some fancy new drugs the bugs will lie down and take it. Not only disease-causing germs but diseases themselves are constantly evolving. So, says Burnet, while it is right and necessary to give antibiotics to protect a patient for a short time against a specific hazard, they must not be used indiscriminately or indefinitely. Reason: it is impossible to be sure that the germs cannot develop resistance to the drug, and if they do, they may become the dominant forms of their type, much...
...Jacobs and Heidelberger went $2,000 each and the Order of Leopold II; to Dr. Brown's estate, his posthumous $4,000; and to that of Britain's late Dr. H. W. Thomas, who helped to develop atoxyl, $2,000. Despite the passage of years, no better drug than tryparsamide has been found for the sleeping death...