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Word: stigmin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which nerve impulses are interrupted before they get to the muscles, leaving the patient pitifully weak and fatigued. Manhattan's Dr. Kermit E. Osserman reported that experiments with a new drug, pyrido-stigmin, produced partial rehabilitation of nearly half of 45 "moderate and severe cases," proved "definitely less toxic" than other drugs (e.g., neostigmine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Dec. 20, 1954 | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

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