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a while ago, they've been praised,
derided, black-marketed and discussed constantly

CAMEL ET BIRDS.
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B3y FRED S. STEINGOLD patients. Bromides and barbitur-
WVOMAI in a mental hospital ates acre effective but had one
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was listed a incurable by the major and heretofore insur-
doctors, tier shattered personality mountable drawback: they quieted
t ailed to respond- to the traditional mental patients at the expense of
msethods of psychotherapy em- clouding their consciousness or
ployed durnng her six years of even renidering them unconsciouss.
hospitalization. See Cover Picture
Before attempting to operate on _____ __ _____
the frontal lolse of her brain-a Tranquilizers calm mental pa -
last-resort procdure-the doctors tbents, reduce their overactivity.
adisninistered a new drue. The and allay their anxieties while
ptatient became calm, a lert co- the patients remain fully awake
operative, She tallked easily, an'd, a nd amenable to psychiatric care.
after six months of treatment with S is istaot surprising, therefore,
talk, and the drug eat able to that cautious doctors coiled the
leave the hospital and re oin her tranquilizers "sensational" or
family. "miraculous" 'slter sceing"hmi
Ten us uetally retarded children action. lcmi
wcre teeated wtithia ncw drug. A Rescatchers who worked at pin-
few msonthslte ts f their ning down the tsanquilizing agent
issteliisonce showed are ncrnease in the tiench antihnstaimine iso-
over seerea on a s ssrlar teat takcn lated a bitter-tasting substance
as they began tieaitent. Therailed chlorpionmazine (accent usa
children seme able to learsnmoroe the second sytiable). Sn 1154
rapidly and to do moie things by chlorpsomazine wass reported as a
thenmselves. diramatic hselp in asental illness."
Fliers at an Air Force b's e had !Since then usslisons of people in
difficulty getting to sleep. They the United States hive been
tireated asith this tiranquislizer.
MOTERtrnqulierfor deep-
veloped in 1953 by Ciba Pharmsa-
reutical Prodiictasuec.The sub-
stance --clle d iesespiie-casme
Siomamtropical saiktesoot plant
Nsltc fos centutrirs had been
tset o cute a miultitude of ills
y~f l !in SIndia.sripint was soiiginally
diesignu s a remedy for hich
tiloodiiiissure but wsas found to
s x N y be effective u in, sits'sngmentali
a a ~illness's alo
Fuol'schlosrptomazitesand reser-
> w i ne prosduced tint sass titale side
lictTre aere same reports
of t's'sntssce .Somcsinis anasal
bt sniesat suns blood
j y lts :'s's to'srsd, Si'
Ilin-
is 'ci o in s'Cs'st t - U-
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Sits is 5tss '5a' l If" also sutter lisa
2$it sic lit'' i ri ats SOf tititel tessotsisse he-
ic',u'ois cis a isos sisy sttsScsame tense and jitstay? Row
P-ti ' issach' sltrists'r'siislit",ona'buttetSte fatseiof tse family
lt'e tei's'tht s ome sumtininsaess awho bross lt home asrsi es from
tld sc' 'is rentisiti's it" uses the officeasastumpsyand juist
lta litU sI'ii lernc:ud i" se's--a coculdn't rel'ax?'sWhttrelief sass
thicy callt'hum cenI&ssssiA ie-thetre fot a teen-'ager awhose sterves
tiees ..a trited thedit ion pa'-sacse jut ,lcd betautacof family
ltienSts in nutal hosutits. The y pr ohles inIis hirolen tiome?
couslcd hardly believe wsat's e1y' They ill needse0 a mild tan-
sassPatuents arseho hdnt talked qitizcs-- as, wth a mintimum of
fitsfuse to 10 stirs be"g'n to specais side effecits --swhicht could be
Childiren so ascsteely uitset asnd psresribed1saifely b's thse family
Ibadly idjutsted ltit they wsetc doctor. Fesearchers.fotuind te ass-
kept so locked rutoisabecames'eo- sasci in stapieb snisic (accent on
el-esasitse sod qsit. t hiethitrd sy'l'able', a der'ivativ'e
Slits, theniesticalasorsi o sitot ofa Bit sish muss ceeaxasit. Mcd-
reaslizedasas the beeinunin' o1 a ii authitties teirsaed it an "ideal
ieaolu~tionary ussw technsisque firtsrIanquilizcr."Manufactied uss-
treatisn" imental iaid tisnets dis- des thetrai~de namsas of Miltoswsn
ores ansid Eqsuanil, itt isobtusae I is
0NLY seven shost yeasa have Ft/1s/fis/i" s''i/
pased sian'e this accidientali
ditatovesy as as.made, hut clusrssing , i iuassctsta s iss
these ytaisa psychasitat' tstsitsan wsoiit it ;sst i/istsits!anta
cenists hasve inoved foraird by wititi/sc of Si iswa Delta C/si, /sro-
leasan td bousids in assarca athere
for 2,000 years only basby stelas fessioisftitiao /raists frti'eitiy.
had beeintakein. Many similar lies scticli'"Bio Ritt's---sit ev'a/-
compounds recenitly have been de- ii/on of fte siit of Sout/a
velolted and classified under the OhasfmusGinesos
heading of tratnquilizers.ftosGuserHue
Fi'ior to trausquilizers, doctors ""apptearedi in The Daily MAga-
relied on heavy sedatives to quiet sin' 'n January, 1956«

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