Word: potentes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Reason for the many-colored recall of events dating back to the first year of life, and the accelerated recovery of about half the patients, was the use, in combination with orthodox psychotherapy, of one of the most potent drugs known to man: lysergic acid diethylamide. Trade-named Delysid by Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, it is usually known by its early lab designation, LSD-25 (TIME, June...
...from tranquilizing a child, some of the potent drugs given to prevent nausea and vomiting may throw him into convulsions, warns a Manhattan pediatrician. In some cases, says New York University's Dr. Sidney Q. Cohlan in GP (published by the American Academy of General Practice), even moderate doses of drugs in the phenothiazine family* produce alarming and puzzling convulsions...
Fortunately, says Dr. Cohlan, the symptoms usually subside if the drug is stopped, though sometimes anticonvulsive drugs must be given. And there is no permanent damage. Main thing, he says, is that physicians should not give children these potent drugs haphazardly-and should know what to watch for when they are prescribed...
...Potent Group. A Harvard Phi Beta Kappa ('32) and onetime ABC vice president for public affairs, sad-faced Bob Saudek was running the Ford Foundation's TV-Radio Workshop when he developed the idea for Omnibus. Getting the program under way with foundation capital, he evolved a principle that his firm applies today with its own funds: "We should take the money and blow it, and we should blow it in a big way." The big way brought some memorable shows to the air (The Life of Samuel Johnson, Orson Welles's King Lear, Comic Satirists Mike...
...traditionally most potent fever fighter has been quinine. Thanks to its long and distinguished history as the only effective weapon against the recurrent fevers of malaria, quinine is still highly regarded in Europe and among many older Americans (especially in the recently malarial South) for treating fevers. Last week, in Munich's Medizinische Wochen-schrift, Dr. Wolfgang-Dietrich Müller damned quinine with the results of a study on thousands of patients in Bielefeld. Among those who took quinine pills at the first sniffle, Asian flu was five to ten times as common as among those...