This is the third story in this summer’s online Flash Fiction series. Read the entire series, and our Flash Fiction from previous years, here. “Double Time for Pat Hobby” was filed in the Fitzgerald ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. overall: 8.4 cm x 3.4 cm x 3.4 cm; 3 ...

Rasmussen, who has taught life sciences and medicine at UCLA and other universities, examines amphetamine as a case study on the place drugs occupy in our culture and our fantasies (of miracle cures ...

These drawbacks to self-destruction, as ticked off by Dorothy Parker, do not apply to an overdose of sleeping pills. In recent years the barbiturates have enjoyed alarming popularity as a painless ...

From the Psychiatric Clinic and Pathological Laboratory of the Boston State Hospital, Boston, Mass. Schube, Purcell G. — Assistant superintendent, Boston State Hospital. Raskin, Naomi — Pathologist, ...

Benzedrine was supposed to be the pep in the German Army’s pep pills (TIME, Sept. 14, 1942),* and is indubitably the drug that causes periodic tantrums among college deans when cramming students take ...

Amphetamines—variously known as speed, ice, crystal, pep pills, Benzedrine, Dexedrine, Adderall, Ritalin, and countless other brand names—have played a persistent role in the pharmaceutical ...

Colter and Quastel 1 have shown that many amines (benzedrine, ephedrine, tyramine, methylamine, di-methylamine, ethanolamine and histamine) act as competitive anticholine oxidases, and protect choline ...

THE unquestioned value of benzedrine (phenyl-isopropylamine) in the treatment of nareolepsy has made it of interest to discover in what ways this drug might influence metabolic events in the nervous ...

A new biography traces the ascent of a man who made the postwar right at once urbane, combative, and camera-ready. Inspired by “The Crucible,” Miniatures, and “Harriet the Spy” Kimberly Belflower, the ...

From the Division of Psychiatric Research, Boston State Hospital, Boston. This study was aided by grants from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Rockefeller Foundation. † Clinical professor of ...