Word: prostigmin
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...ships, planes, streetcars or camels. They have given advice (eat, don't eat, lie down, move around, wear an abdominal belt, keep your eye on the horizon). They have also suggested such medicines as Atropine (which tones down intestinal activity, believed to be a factor in nausea), Prostigmin (which keeps the stomach working in the right direction), and sedatives. Nothing worked well enough...
...also have an uncommonly low temperature. So Scientists Britton and Kline left their sloths out in the tropical sunshine long enough to raise their temperatures by five or six degrees, and the change was miraculous: they moved 50% faster. Similar speedups were also obtained by injections of adrenalin and prostigmin (an intestinal stimulant), and by scaring them. Subjected to such speedup techniques as this, the Virginia physiologists were pleased to report in Science last week that one thoroughly stimulated sloth hustled along the pole at the relatively dizzy pace of one mile an hour...
...call theirs a "Modern Method for Prevention of Postoperative Distention." They depend upon a newly synthesized drug to keep the bowels moving and expelling any gas which may form. The drug: dimethyl-carbamic ester of 3-hydroxyphenyl-trimethyl ammonium methyl-sulphate, a chemical compound which has been telescoped to prostigmin. Drs. Levis & Axelman inject small amounts of prostigmin "at the time of operation or shortly thereafter and continue injections for 24 to 48 hours at four to six hour intervals, or until such time that we feel the condition of the patient indicates no further need of this medication...
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