Word: vitaminized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Savings were expected to average 50%. Sample differences in wholesale prices: Dexedrine, $2.65 per 100 v. dextroamphetamine, 44?; Rubramin, $3.33 per 100 v. vitamin B12, $1.85; Pentids, $1.27 for twelve tablets v. buffered penicillin G, $2.75 per 100. Retail prices would be in about the same proportion. All drugs sold by chemical name must meet the same Government standards of purity and potency as brand-named items. Connecticut was banking on an annual saving of at least $250,000, and Dr. Harold Pierce, the welfare department's medical director, thought the savings might run to $500,000. "This," said...
...Vitamin...
...Vitamin B Complex...
Died. Dr. Tom Douglas Spies, 57, nutrition expert whose boyhood horror of pellagra (once widespread, often fatal vitamin-deficiency disease in the South) led him to use nicotinic acid to cure the disease in the South and the North (where alcoholism was a principal contributing factor) ; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...current favorite is Coricidin (Schering Corp.), combining APC with a small enough dose of the antihistamine Chlor-Trimeton to be sold without prescription. If the customer does not know what he wants, many druggists recommend this. Competitive runners-up: Dristan (Whitehall) and Super-Anahist (Anahist Research Laboratories). Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) has become popular, though its value is largely unproved...