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...first test came on picking a keynoter. Boss Butler's choice was onetime Governor Dan Moody, who waited outside the chamber nervously chewing a cigar. (When a friend gave him a congratulatory slap on the back, Dan Moody accidentally swallowed the butt, rushed to the drugstore for sodium bicarbonate.) Up rose Alvin J. Wirtz, red-hot Fourth Termer, to propose the name of onetime Governor James V. Allred. His voice was barely heard above the shouting. When the vote came, anti-Fourth Termers had won, 940-to-774. On a second vote, to pledge Texas electors absolutely to vote...
...medical defenses were set up against the rise of neuropsychiatric disabilities. At a meeting in Philadelphia last fortnight of the American Psychiatric Association, Lieut. Colonel Roy Grinker and Major John Spiegel of the Army Air Forces Medical Corps described a technique known as "narcosynthesis." With such drugs as sodium pentothal and scopolamine, the afflicted flyer is reduced to a quasi-dream state in which he can talk freely but coherently about his innermost feelings...
...super vision, the blue-green penicillium mold began to grow again. The researchers dis covered that the best growing temperature is about 75° F.,that the mold needs plenty of air. At first, Dr. Florey's researchers got only about a gram of reddish-brown powder (the sodium salt of penicillin -penicillin itself is an unstable acid) from 100 liters of the mold liquid. But at last, after heroic chemical cookery, they accumulated enough penicillin to test the drug on living creatures...
...Irium is the trade name for the cleansing agent sodium alkyl sulphate...
...neuroses appear serious at the out set. Colonel Grinker says that this treatment can be used only at base hospitals or psychiatric station hospitals. But many conscientious, front-line psychiatrists use some of the uncovering techniques. For this treatment, a soldier is given food, rest and some drug (e.g., sodium pentothal by vein) to loosen his tongue. Beside him in a darkened room the psychiatrist persuades him to describe the horrors he has endured, relive the episodes that hurt his inner being...