Word: copenhagen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story told about the accidental discovery of the effect that a drug named antabus has had in arousing a loathing for alcohol in almost everybody who has taken it. According to Copenhagen's Dr. Erik Jacobsen, who discovered the drug's anti-alcoholic potentialities, TIME was the first U.S. publication to print the story...
TIME Inc.'s Copenhagen stringman, Kai Schou, first heard of antabus at a lecture at Copenhagen's medical association. There Dr. Oluf Martensen-Larsen, a specialist in the treatment of alcoholism, told publicly for the first time about the results his clinic had been getting from the drug. He had volunteered to try it on his patients after Dr. Jacobsen had finished experimenting with it in his laboratory...
...four overseas editions of the December 6 issue had been distributed across the world, Dr. Jacobsen began hearing from TIME'S readers and their friends -by cable, airmail, telephone and letter in seven languages. Most of the communications were addressed merely to "Doctor Jacobsen, Copenhagen," leaving it up to the post office to find him.* Last week Dr. Jacobsen's elderly male secretary was so overworked answering the mail that he collapsed...
...discovery was an accident. Copenhagen's Dr. Erik Jacobsen, 45, likes to try out new drugs on himself before giving them to his patients. One night before going to a dinner party he swallowed a couple of pills made of tetraethyl-thiuram-disulfide; they were supposed to be good for intestinal worms. To his surprise, Dr. Jacobsen found that any form of alcohol revolted him. When he sipped even a small glass of beer, his face got red, his heart started to pound and he had trouble getting his breath...
...exploit the clues that Oppenheimer had given them about the forces that had shaped his life. Accepting his theory that "education is apprenticeship," they set TIME'S world-wide network of correspondents to work seeking out the men he had apprenticed himself to- from San Francisco to Copenhagen-and cross-checking Oppenheimer's impressions with them...