Word: nausea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wonder drug, sulfanilamide, has cured apparently hopeless streptococcus infections, but it has also caused many a headache, and worse-nausea, dizziness, fever, even mild, temporary forms of insanity. For some patients, sulfanilamide is plain poison...
Taken the morning after, in doses varying from ten to 20 milligrams, benzedrine "lifts the secondary depression and relieves the headache." It also eliminates nausea, sharpens concentration, and chases the jitters...
...version is far more dramatic -the first half, indeed, is often extremely exciting theatre. But the new version is also much more romantic, and bulging with high ethical conflicts. One seems valid: the struggle in Rawlings between the idealism that made him take on a sickening job, and the nausea induced by the job itself. The other conflict-love v. duty-is old stage twaddle which Adapter Glazer could not bring to life. Despite its bold beginning, the love affair is flimsy, vaporous, unreal, nearly sinks the play. Only eloquent rhetoric holds the second half of The Fifth Column together...
...straightway sent for help, got other doctors to testify that an expectant mother is subject to fainting spells, nausea. No law was required to cover that possibility, scoffed a Ninety-Nines doctor. A nau seated woman just would not get in a plane, any more than a nauseated...