Word: drugging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill introduced by Congressman Smith, which would allow the producers of the specific (now Dr. William B. Robinson and his son Dr. Gerard Briscoe Robinson, a graduate of Yale Medical School) to continue their business of diagnosing and prescribing asthma medicine through the mail. Under the 1938 Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, this practice is illegal. To comply with the Act, which goes into effect next June, Robinson patients will have to come to Mount Gilead for treatment...
...fold in the Pennsylvania hills, with bulbous Greek Catholic church domes rising over wooden houses, this once-prosperous anthracite town is rusty, dingy, mournful, too melodramatic to be desolate. The Shenandoah City Colliery, its windows broken, its stacks smokeless, is a wild ruin; Stief's Cut Rate Drug and Quick Lunch occupies the banking room of the defunct Shenandoah Trust Co. But once John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers, rode triumphantly up Main Street. Joseph Beddal was killed during the strike of 1902 trying to smuggle arms to strikebreakers besieged in the Reading station. In Muff Lawler...
Newest member of the rapidly growing sulfanilamide family is a little number called N¹ dodecanoylsulfanilamide. It is a combination of the parent drug with part of a fat. Last week at the Baltimore meeting of the American Chemical Society Dr. Moses Leverock Crossley, director of Calco Chemical Co. at Bound Brook, N. J., announced that the new drug had successfully checked the growth of tuberculosis in guinea pigs...
Animals inoculated first with human tuberculosis germs and then with the new drug developed only mild infections at the site of the injections. All those inoculated with germs but not the drug died of tuberculosis. The sulfanilamide compound, said Dr. Crossley, does not cure advanced tuberculosis, nor do the animal tests "permit any conclusion . . . as to the [drug's] efficacy in the treatment of this disease...
...discontinued the treatment (for simpler methods) he had performed 5,000 "rejuvenating" operations. Since 1933 he has treated his hopeful patients with the blue fluid which Dr. Fishbein was so bearish about and with simple prostate operations. For a series of treatments with ⅓-ounce ampules of the drug, Dr. Brinkley often charges $250. Operations sometimes cost as much...