Word: freireich
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...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...