Word: yakusoshin
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...outlet for meprobamate (best known in the U.S. by its original brand name, Miltown). But no patent claim had been filed, and the vacuum was quickly filled by Japan's highly competitive drugmakers-concentrated on a narrow street called Doshomachi in Osaka, around a shrine of Yakusoshin (an ancient god of drugs). By December, Daiichi Seiyaku was on the market with its own brand of meprobamate, called Atraxin. Lederle Ltd. put out Miltown. Takeda competed with its own corporate offshoot by pushing Harmonin...
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