Narrative: Ace reporter Flois Flame has just arrived at the City of Lights, Paris, France, where she has arranged an interview with Dr. Henri Laborit, the surgeon who, with his discovery of a radical ...

Working on an antihistaminic drug which they had developed for the control of allergies such as hay fever, researchers at France’s Rhône-Poulenc laboratories found that the drug made many people ...

In 1952, Henri Laborit, a surgeon in Paris, was looking for a way to reduce surgical shock in his patients. Much of the shock came from the anaesthesia, and if he could find a way to use less, his ...

His brand new painkiller, says France’s Dr. Henri Laborit, dampens the aches and pains of arthritis, burns, cancer, childbirth, neuralgia, rheumatism—just about all the ills the flesh is heir to. Such ...

Antipsychotic drugs are usually considered to be one of the 20th century’s major medical breakthroughs. They are often believed to be so effective that they brought about the closure of the old mental ...