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...often happens, the new pain reliever was discovered by accident. The venerable (est. 1764) Swiss pharmaceutical house of Geigy Co. was trying to find a solvent for the almost insoluble painkiller, Pyramidon. Geigy chemists hit upon phenylbutazone, which worked well as a solvent and then paid a big bonus: it turned out to have remarkable painkilling qualities of its own. Geigy started churning out phenylbutazone (from coal tar) for research...
...drug which most often causes granulopenia in the U. S. is amidopyrine (chemical name: dimethylamrno-phenyl dimethyl pyrazolone). Related drugs which Dr. Kracke also blames are: pyramidon, phenacetine, arsphenamine. neoarsphenamine, amytal compound, allonal, peralga, amidophen. Dinitrophenol causes the rapid oxidization of sugar and fat in the body. This year it killed at least two overeager fat-reducers (TIME, April 30). Dr. Kracke said he feared it would be exploited this winter as a weight reducer...
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