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...derivatives of coal tar. Negroes, who seldom complain of minor aches or pains, do not use those drugs. Poor people cannot afford them. Doctors get them as free samples. "We have seen few physicians," said Dr. Kracke last week, "who do not have a package of allonal, amytal compound, peralga, or other such drugs lying on their desk within easy reach. It is easy for the doctor and certainly common practice when members of his family become ill to reach for one of these 'newer and better' drugs with which he has been circularized and detailed...
...drug which most often causes granulopenia in the U. S. is amidopyrine (chemical name: dimethylamrno-phenyl dimethyl pyrazolone). Related drugs which Dr. Kracke also blames are: pyramidon, phenacetine, arsphenamine. neoarsphenamine, amytal compound, allonal, peralga, amidophen. Dinitrophenol causes the rapid oxidization of sugar and fat in the body. This year it killed at least two overeager fat-reducers (TIME, April 30). Dr. Kracke said he feared it would be exploited this winter as a weight reducer...
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