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Ready for business. Pharmacist Feuillet handed his formula to a pharmaceutical firm for production. He called the drug Stalinon (for some of the ingredients, not for Joe), let it be known that the concoction, to be taken orally, was deadly to staphylococcus infections, mortal to boils and sties, extremely unfriendly to acne. In January 1954 thousands of boxes of Stalinon went to drugstores all over France and French North Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Killer Drug | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

Ready Treatment. Soon strange reports began reaching health authorities. In the Algerian village of Saint-Cyprien-des-Attafs, a French mother tried to cure one child of boils and prevent three others from getting them by giving the kids Stalinon. Within days, the four children, aged seven to 14, were dead. Here and there around France people suddenly and mysteriously dropped dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Killer Drug | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

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