Word: pharmacopeia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trade names as Miltown, hit the tranquilizer market in 1955, it became a runaway bestseller because it seemed to do its work with a minimum of undesirable side effects. Now, Miltown (also marketed as Equanil) is in for a letdown. It is dropped from the U.S. Pharmacopeia new edition, which becomes effective Sept...
Miltown will still be available for doctors to prescribe as they see fit. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is contemplating no action against it. But the U.S. Pharmacopeia privately prepared by an independent committee of physicians and pharmacists, is the most prestigious of the doctor's reference books on drugs...