Word: drugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation's biggest drug manufacturers last week agreed to become the biggest. Directors of Merck & Co., which grossed $105.7 million and netted $8.4 million last year, and Sharp & Dohme, which netted $3.9 million on a $50.4 million gross, okayed a plan to merge. If stockholders approve, the combined company will pass Parke, Davis & Co. as the biggest U.S. maker of ethical drugs...
...most valuable and widely used antibiotics can cause death if the physician employing them is not careful, warned the Mayo Clinic's Dr. P. T. Sloss. The trouble is most likely to develop on the fourth day of treatment with aureomycin or terramycin. The drugs kill many of the bacteria normally found in the intestine, and give a chance for resistant strains of staphylococci to multiply and poison the system. In such cases (so far, rare), the patient gets symptoms like those of cholera, and will die in a day or two, Dr. Sloss said, unless the drugs...
...Teen-age drug addiction...
Reverse Effects. Several of the tests were to find out how an emotionless stomach behaves with certain drugs. This is important, because normal patients often have such strong emotions that they can reverse a drug's natural action (e.g., sleeping pills may keep a man awake if he firmly believes that he is getting a stimulant). Atropine has been a puzzle, because in theory it should cut down stomach activity, but in practice small doses sometimes do the opposite. Doctors had thought, but could not prove, that this was due to emotional factors. The Louisiana farmhand provided the proof...
Died. Roger William Riis, 58, Reader's Digest roving editor who specialized in exposing food & drug rackets and airing consumer grievances ("The Truth About Smoking," "The Repairman Will Gyp You If You Don't Watch Out"); of a heart attack; in Stamford, Conn...