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ACCORDING to the Journal of the American Medical Association of March 25, the Academy of Medicine of Paris has for months been studying the problem of the shortage of indispensable drugs. At the suggestion of Dr. Georges Duhamel, a committee has been formed to publish periodically a list of drugs and chemical products becoming rare. The majority of raw materials come from foreign countries, and importation of these has mostly been cut off. A second reason consists in the difficulty of transport and the dearth of packing material. In the latest list presented to the Academy the following were said to be extremely scarce or entirely absent: caffeine, theobromine, iodine, camphor, boric acid and its derivatives, quinine, opium and its alkaloids, glycerine, cod liver oil, starch, dextrose, mustard meal, lactose, tartaric and citric acids, insulin, and many other chemical and vegetable products.
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Shortage of Drugs in France. Nature 149, 729 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149729b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/149729b0