Word: elixir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than practice medicine himself. His business, established in Bristol, Tenn., grew until it had $300,000 in assets. Then, two months ago, fatality knocked at its door. A new mixture of a new drug (sulfanilamide) with a new solvent (diethylene glycol), which Dr. Massengill's salesmen sold as Elixir Sulfanilamide-Massengill, was discovered to be killing its users (TIME...
...radiators from freezing, never before put to this purpose. Whether diethylene glycol is poisonous by itself or in this solution was not made clear last week. The one indisputable fact was that S. E. Massengill Co. made up several 80-gal. batches of sulfanilamide solution. This was labeled an elixir, a technical pharmacological term for a drug sweetened and dissolved in alcohol, and shipped to 375 retailers. The retailers, one as far away as Puerto Rico, dispensed this "elixir" with and without prescriptions, in reddish brown flasks whose yellow labels read...
...Elixir SULFANILAMIDE, suggested for the treatment of all conditions in which the hemolytic streptococci appear. Dose-begin with 2 to 3 teaspoonsful in water every four hours. Decrease in 24 hours to 1 or 2 teaspoonsful and continue at this dose until recovery. S. E. MASSENGILL CO., manufacturing pharmacists...
Chief of the Federal Food & Drug Administration, a pugnacious Kentucky lawyer named Walter Gilbert Campbell, has agents posted throughout the country, watching for just such pharmaceutical accidents. Those men last week confiscated every last flask of the Massengill "elixir" upon which they could lay their hands. A Federal agent at Bristol said to Chief Campbell: "The most amazing thing about the company was the total lack of testing facilities. Apparently they just throw drugs together, and if they don't explode they are placed on sale." Dr. Massengill cooperated with the Food & Drug men by sending warning telegrams...
...Siegert & Hijos (Sons) Ltd. of Trinidad. Dr. Alfredo Siegert, the firm's present managing director is a grandson of Founder Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert, a surgeon under Blücher at Waterloo. After Napoleon's fall Johann Siegert went to Angostura in Venezuela, began making his "elixir." Only known ingredients are gentian, common bitters base, and rum. Dr. Alfredo Siegert, Albert Siegert and Krast Siegert are the only three living men who know Angostura Bitters' formula. In case something should happen to all three at once, copies of the formula are cached in two bank vaults...