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Your exposition [of a new muscle relaxant to be marketed under the name Soma-June 8] leaves me with no recourse but to admit that my life is momentarily complete. To envision N-isopropyl-2-methyl-2-propyl-1,3-propanediol dicarbamate narcotized people running around chanting Soma, delicious Soma, is to my mind just about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 22, 1959 | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

Even chemists had to give the drug a less jawbreaking name than N-isopropyl-2-methyl-2-propyl-1 ,3-propanediol dicarbamate, hit upon "carisoprodol." That was still too much for Wallace Labs' savvy marketing department: they are calling it Soma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Brave New Soma | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

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