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Fancy Figures. The story came to light when a newly elected member of the board of school directors. Pharmacist Angelo La-Buono, dropped in at Stengle's office one day last December for a get-acquainted chat. Since Stengle was out, LaBuono began passing the time with three of his clerks. Soon they were blurting out rumors and suspicions-all about a pretty redhead seen on Stengle's arm in Philadelphia, and fancy figures on the school checks that passed through his hands...
...started out as just another patent medicine. During a trip to Madagascar, Paris Pharmacist Georges Feuillet, who was already turning out 15 patent drugs, developed furunculosis (boils), and began experimenting with a new remedy. He used a combination of vitamin F* and an organic tin compound containing iodine (called di-iodo-diethyl of tin), which he imagined had a healing effect on skin. Feuillet took some of his capsules, then sent them to a friend, the head of a military hospital, who tried them out on his patients and found them "successful." Soon the Ministry of Health cleared them...
Ready for business. Pharmacist Feuillet handed his formula to a pharmaceutical firm for production. He called the drug Stalinon (for some of the ingredients, not for Joe), let it be known that the concoction, to be taken orally, was deadly to staphylococcus infections, mortal to boils and sties, extremely unfriendly to acne. In January 1954 thousands of boxes of Stalinon went to drugstores all over France and French North Africa...
Deadly Testimony. In a somber Paris courtroom last month, the "Association of Stalinon Victims"-crippled survivors and relatives of the dead-faced pale, pudgy Pharmacist Feuillet, who was on trial for involuntary homicide. Also at issue in the trial: $5,000,000 in claims for damages. On the witness stand, a leading French toxicologist explained that Stalinon's death agent was the organic tin compound, which is well known to be chemically unstable and poisonous. Said the witness: "The tin deposits traveled to the brain and caused edema. The expanding brain tissue pressed against the skull and caused unimaginable...
Following horrifying news reports of the trial, many Frenchmen hoped that the case would lead to a clean sweep of France's antiquated pharmaceutical laws. On trial was not only Pharmacist Feuillet but in effect the French Ministry of Health, which had tested Stalinon and allowed it to be marketed. One official coolly explained to the court: "We have only about two minutes on the average to examine each new product submitted." He claimed that "nothing was wrong" with the way Stalinon was approved and that "the same thing would happen again, and we would again issue the permit...