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...approximately half of all juvenile cancer deaths, was invariably fatal before chemotherapy was introduced in 1947. Now at least 25% of all children with the disease can expect to live at least five years. Credited with this achievement were Drs. Emil Frei III of Harvard Medical School, Emil Freireich of the M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute at the University of Texas, James Holland of Roswell Park and Donald Pinkel of St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis...
...drugs simply counteract each other, explained Drs. Abraham Freireich and Joseph Landsberg, in the A.M.A. Journal. Dr. Freireich, a Long Island county toxicologist, directed the treatments which revived 19 would-be suicides with massive intravenous injections of benzedrine. (The reviving dose of benzedrine would be equally poisonous to any but a thoroughly doped victim.) Benzedrine, he also found, prevents the pneumonia which frequently follows an unsuccessful barbiturate poisoning...
...Freireich's discovery was anticipated by bored Broadwayites, who have made a pastime of "bolts and jolts"-mixtures of barbiturates and benzedrine which knock them for a loop, then slap them...