Word: elixir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Harold Cole Watkins, 58, chemist who in 1937 prepared the fatal formula containing sulfanilamide and diethylene glycol, labeled "Elixir Sulfanilamide," which killed at least 76 people; by his own hand (shooting); in Bristol, Tenn...
Sulfanilamide tablets and injections work wonders with gonorrhea, meningitis and various streptococcic diseases. But sulfanilamide combined with other drugs may prove fatal, as Dr. Samuel Evans Massengill, 67-year-old pharmaceutical manufacturer of Bristol, Tenn., discovered last year when his "Elixir of Sulfanilamide" (sulfanilamide dissolved in diethylene glycol) killed over 100 people (TIME, Dec. 20). Kin of the victims promptly started civil suits, to date have collected more than $150,000 damages from S. E. Massengill...
Prosecution by the Government, however, was limited to minor charges under the old 1906 Pure Food & Drug Act. Last week, in Eastern District Court of Tennes see, Dr. Massengill pleaded guilty to mislabeling his preparation an elixir (technically the word elixir implies solution of a drug in accepted a fine...
...deaths which occurred in the U. S. last year from "elixir of sulfanilamide" were not due to the action of the drug, but to the diethylene glycol which an ignorant chemist used to dissolve it. Sulfanilamide should be taken only upon a physician's prescription...
Quietly triumphant, Sir John Simon remarked to friends that once again he had, without throat discomfort, got through a long speech thanks to the mysterious ''elixir'' which Lady Simon always mixes up beforehand. Orator Sir John takes nips of this from a phial, and the potent elixir is gradually diluted as he sips water, about one glass every half hour...