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...Niort, a sleepy town in west central France, Dr. Alain de Lignières took a hard look at the phenomenon. The disease began with agonizing headaches and repeated vomiting. It continued with failing vision, bellyache, urinary difficulties, ended with excruciating pain, fits of delirium, blindness, hallucinations, usually death. De Lignières noted that three of his patients had died in this fashion after taking Stalinon, immediately phoned his suspicions to health authorities in Paris. Emergency orders went out to 14,000 pharmacies to stop sale of the drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Killer Drug | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

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