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...Strong Cobb & Co. of Cleveland announced a new barbiturate which in overlarge doses will turn the stomachs of "goofball" addicts and would-be suicides. Developed by Drs. Theodore Koppanyi and Joseph Fazekas of Washington, D.C., the pills contain standard barbiturates and an added safety factor, pentylenetetrazol. A powerful nerve stimulant, the safety factor counteracts the depressant effect of too much barbiturate, and long before the goofball addict drifts into euphoria or the would-be suicide passes out, pentylenetetrazol causes the unhappy user to vomit his medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Apr. 27, 1953 | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

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