Word: pills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will lift up mine eyes unto the pills. Nembutal yellow as buttercups, azure amytal and the purple benzedrine, slum-berol, and hey, ho, the valleyol. Life pills to keep you sterile and death pills for inducing permanent sleep and an open verdict." The dangers of drugs were everywhere in the headlines, and Malcolm Muggeridge, 59, the gadfly columnist of Britain's New Statesman, was not the man to let opportunity sleep. Continued Muggeridge, in a biting psalm for the pill takers of our time: "A pill a day keeps the druggist in pay. Pills for slimming, pills for fattening...
Appalling reports continued to roll in. So far as is known, close to 8,000 babies have been born deformed because their mothers used a sleeping-pill-tranquilizer called thalidomide (TIME, Feb. 23). All this added up to the greatest prescription disaster in medical history. Thanks to the intuition of the Food and Drug Administration's Dr. Frances Kelsey,* the U.S. has got off lightly because the drug was never licensed for general use. In the half dozen reported U.S. cases of birth malformations due to thalidomide, the drug was obtained from abroad. Even so, the testing and marketing...
...commend you on your article about oral contraceptives [July 20]. We are all anxious to solve the population problem, and most of us believe it can best be done with reliable contraceptives. There seems to be no doubt but that these pills, taken by mouth, will suspend ovulation in the female, but it is inconceivable to me, an embryologist, that any chemical of sufficient specific potency as to suspend the normal maturation of eggs in the ovary can be free from adverse side effects. The absence of side effects for the short period of five years is an insufficient trial...
...healthy and happily married Arizona woman, mother of four children, last week went to court to ask approval for an illegal act: getting an abortion. Her fifth child, she fears, might be hideously deformed as a result of her taking the sleeping pill thalidomide...
Finally Orville wound down, and color began returning to his cheeks. A reporter tried to break the tension. "Is this," he asked lightly, "the result of a vitamin shot this morning?" Said Freeman: "I did have a-what do you call them, a unipill? or univac?-vitamin pill at breakfast. Maybe that's it." Maybe it was, but it seemed more likely that it was just the bitter pill of being the current custodian of the scandalous U.S. farm mess...