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* In the U.S., the Bayer cross has belonged to Sterling since its predecessor company bought the Bayer assets from the Alien Property Custodian during World War I. But in Latin America the name and trademark, like those of many another famed pharmaceutical (e.g., salvarsan, luminal, atabrine) have always been German...
Last December Winthrop Chemical Co., a reputable Manhattan firm, shipped out 410,000 sulfathiazole tablets throughout the U. S. Several days later a doctor complained that the pills made a patient dangerously drowsy. Company chemists discovered to their horror that they had been accidentally mixed with a powerful sleeping powder...
Starr Faithfull. a sexually distraught, neurotic young woman whose death excited the nation (TIME. June 29. 1931, et seq.). died by drowning after she had been drugged with luminal and thrown from a boat, declared Dr. Gettler. A difference of saltiness between the bloods in the right and left cavities...
As for Starr Faithfull being drugged, analysis of her organs showed that she had had about twelve grains of luminal in her body. Two grains make a person sleep, twelve grains may kill but will certainly keep one unconscious for a long period. Someone must have heaved Starr Faithfull over...
Luminal, developed in Germany during the last ten years, belongs to the same chemical group of drugs as chloral and veronal. Hitherto it has been regarded only as a sedative, a depressant of the nervous system, injected through the mouth or veins.