Word: pill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...locked the cellar door, notified officials, and sent for the police. In a short time they were on their way out to Cambridge to arrest Webster. When he was told about the discovery, he gulped out, "Did they find the whole body?" and then swallowed a small strychnine pill, which had no ill effect because of his excited condition...
...patients. They reported excitingly good results in cases of depression lasting as long as six years. But use of iproniazid for such patients is tricky: the drug is powerful and potentially dangerous. Strictly a prescription item, best used in hospitals, iproniazid is far from being everybody's happiness pill...
...York-based Confidential and its Mount Morris (Ill.) distributing agency, the Kable Printing Co., were charged with mailing "nonmailable matter . . . which gives . . . information on how and by what means abortion may be produced." What prompted the indictment was an article in the March 1956 issue of Confidential headed: "The Pill That Ends Unwanted Pregnancy." Though written in the magazine's characteristically pious style ("Beware the Newest Abortion Menace"), the article was a sort of do-it-yourself commentary on a new antileukemia drug (retail price: $4.50 per 100 pills) that ended pregnancy in eleven of 15 women selected...
Other doctors are becoming seriously concerned at the public's widespread demand for the pills. "Could they," wondered a Boston pharmacologist, "make millions of people significantly indifferent to politics-or to their responsibilities as automobile drivers?" Says one G.P.: "Some doctors seem to prescribe a pill for almost any talkative patient-for people who aren't true neurotics. But what such people often need is precisely a chance to talk." Other doctors cautioned against prescribing the pills for every patient with an emotional upset. Concludes Baltimore Psychiatrist Frank Ayd Jr.: "Although the tranquilizers are beneficial to emotionally disturbed...
Councilor Hyman Pill reminded Curry that he had promised that the city workers in Cambridge would be the best payed in the state. The workers then agreed to wait until the "cherry-sheets" arrived. "We will see if the city manager will support our interest as he has supported the interests of the masters," concluded Jeremiah F. Sheah, an A.F.L.-C.I.O. representative...