Contergan

The company hawked the drug, known as Contergan and available over the counter, not only as a tranquilizer, but as a sleep aid, a flu remedy, and, at least according to a doctor on retainer to Grünenthal, a suppressor of young men’s desire to masturbate.

MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

On the basis of these data, product liability law that de fi nes drug-induced tort, Chemie Grunenthal A.G. brought thalidomide to the history of high-pro fi le pharmaceutical injury market under the trade name Contergan in October litigation shows that the practical prosecution of 1957 (Robertson,

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Thalidomide was a remedy for sleeplessness and morning sickness, sold under reassuringly nonsensical names like Quietoplex and Softenon and Contergan.

Origins Annie Murphy Paul 2010

I still have the package of Contergan I was given as a souvenir.

Staying Tuned Daniel Schorr 2001

“Would you give Contergan to a woman in your own family?”

Staying Tuned Daniel Schorr 2001

“Would you give Contergan to a woman in your own family?”

Staying Tuned Daniel Schorr 2001

I still have the package of Contergan I was given as a souvenir.

Staying Tuned Daniel Schorr 2001

I still have the package of Contergan I was given as a souvenir.

Staying Tuned Daniel Schorr 2001

“Would you give Contergan to a woman in your own family?”

Staying Tuned Daniel Schorr 2001

Korte believes that effective supervision of the pharmaceutical industry could have spotted the link between embryo damage and thalidomide, sold in Germany as Contergan, as early as 1958.

The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010