Word: opium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...court evidence which convinced almost every one except his British judges that he had practiced ruthless extortion on the natives of Sarawak after obtaining it from the Sultan of Borneo by violence, trickery and threats. Even today the discreet British Statesman's Year Book is obliged to list opium, gambling and arrack (strong spirits) as leading sources of revenue of the House of Brooke in Sarawak. The present Rajah, hard, suave, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke (grandnephew of Little Boy Brooke) boasts in the British Who's Who that he has "led several expeditions into the far interior...
Famed "Old Marshal" Chang began life as a coolie, made himself the uncrowned War Lord of what is now Manchukuo, had himself scores of wives, reveled in opium, drank hot tigers' blood in the belief that it kept his vitals active, played Japan's game for years and when he ceased to do so was dynamited in his private railway car (TIME, June...
...chosen for its topic "Reorganization of the League," while Committee II has split into two subcommittees, the first to discuss an economic question and the second to consider "Intellectual Cooperation." "Mandates" is the subject picked by the political Committee and Committee IV has undertaken the consideration of "The Opium Convention." The subject of "German Refugees" has been delegated to a special group...
With patents on the drug combinations assured to control commercial exploitation. University of Minnesota medical authorities last week published in the Journal of the American Medical Association a treatment for colds which has proved efficacious among the students. The drugs are all derivatives of opium. Combinations of codeine with papaverine, dilaudid with papaverine and morphine with papaverine are equally effective...
...Harold Sheely Diehl, who was led to the study of opium derivatives by ''the consistently good results I obtained in the treatment of my own colds with morphine," recommends the codeine papaverine combination. "That combination," said he last week, "seems most desirable because of the high percentage of good results obtained with it, its low toxicity, and the absence of danger, or at least of 'practical danger,' of habituation to it." One dose contains one-quarter grain codeine and one-quarter grain papaverine.* Dosages vary with a cold victim's weight from one pill after...