Sulfazin (Sulphazin)

(from SBD)

A drug administered in Soviet psychiatric hospitals to treat mental illness and allegedly as a punishment. It con­sists of one-percent solution of purified sulfur in peach oil and it induces fever, weight loss, and exhaustion.

If a patient speaks_out against such brutality, he is subjected to pimishment by overdoses of drags or injections of sulfazin that make i I painful for him even to stir...

Anxiolytic (from SBD)

A drug used to relieve anxiety: a tranquilizer.

Physicians no less than patients, says Dr. Shapiro, have always been, and still are, subject to fads and fashions in medicines, and the anxiolytics are today’s “in” drugs.

Tricyclic (from SBD)

Any of a class of antidepressant drugs that prevent the breakdown of serotonin, a chemical transmitter of nerve im­pulses belieyed to be involved in depression.

Tricyclies antidepressants help the people who get to sleep, but wake up at about three, seeing everything as a disaster; their mortgage is going to fall in, they’re going to lose their job, their daughter is going to marry the wrong man, their wife’s going to leave them... You want to give them tricyclics at night sufficient to stop this early- morning Waking, this early-morning panic.

This medicine is so called from the drugs being tricyclic compounds (having a three-ringed molecular structure).

Task 27. Choose the possible answers to the compre­hension questions:

1. What type of medicine is aminazin? 2. In the treat­ment of what disease can aminazin be used? 3. What is the effect of aminazin? 4. What are the ingredients of sulfazin?

5. What does sulfazin induce? 6. What type of medicine is anxiolytic? 7. What is the function of serotonin? 8. What type of medicine is tricyclic? 9. What does tricyclic pre­vent? 10. What is tricyclic involved in?

(a — fever, weight loss and exhaustion; b — a tranquilizer; c — antidepressant; d — the breakdown of serotonin; e — in depression; f — a chemical transmitter of nerve impulses; g — of mental illness; h —^ it makes a normal person feel sleepy and groggy; i — a one-percent solution of purified sulfur in peach oil; j — a sedative, antipsychotic, neuroleptic one)

Task 28. Choose the proper terms for the definitions:

1. Hypersensitive reaction to a drug or foreign organism.

2. A toxic harmful effect as a result from the use of drugs.

3. This injection is given into the muscle. 4. Factors in a patient’s condition which make the use of a drug dangerous and ill advised. 5. An acute allergic reaction to a drug.

5. Drugs which decrease the functioning of an organ or sys­tem. 7. Those drugs which effect the nervous system. 8. Cen­tral nervous system depressants which relax and quiet a patient without producing sleep.

(a — anaphylaxis; b * side effect; c — intramuscular; d — contraindications; e — anaphylactic shock; f — depres­sants; g — sedatives; h — neuropharmacologic drugs)

Task 29. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words given below:

1. Agents which decrease the functioning of an ... or system (depressants). 2. Drugs which alter ... and control ... such as depression, fears, etc. (tranquilizers). 3. Drugs which ... sleep (hypnotic). 4. Drugs which depress the ...

(sedatives). 5. Chemical produced normally at all

times by ... endings (acetylcholine). 6. Chemical released by the ... glands (epinephrine). 7. Analgesics are agents which act to relieve ... . 8. Narcotic analgesics are codeine ... opium. 9. Hypnotic drugs are those which depress the

central nervous system and produce 10. Side effects of

caffeine, which is obtained from ... leaves, ... beans are tachy­cardia and irritability, as well as insomnia.

(a — produce; b — nerve; c — adrenal; d — organ; e pain; f — morphine; g — sleep; h — behaviour, symptoms; і — tea, coffee; j — central nervous system)

Task 30. Study the meaning of the following expres­sions from the extract from Somerset Maugham’s short story Lord Mountdrago, then read it and do some con­solidation tasks:

to do smb. a serious injury завдати комусь серйозної ду­шевної травми to feel qualms відчувати докори сумління to let smb. down підвести когось у якійсь справі to seek by suggestion to make smb. forget smth. шукати можливостей примусити когось забути щось за допомогою сугестії (навіювання) to break down smb.’s resistance подолати чийсь опір the frightful dreams кошмарні сни to harass smb. турбувати когось

irritability was uncontrollable дратівливість була безкон­трольною

to receive benefit from smth. мати вигоду з чогось to come to the conclusion дійти висновку to save smb. from the breakdown врятувати когось від нервового розладу to find smb. susceptible to smth. встановити, що хтось піддається навіюванню to get smb. into a condition of somnolence довести когось до сонного стану to soothe smb.’s nerves заспокоїти чиїсь нерви to relax one’s limbs розслабити кінцівки whatever lies in smb.’s power все, що в чиїхось силах to undo the harm загладити провину (образу) to act like a blow of whip подіяти як удар батогом to shake oneself out of hypnotic state різко вийти з гіпно­тичного стану to spring to one’s feet скочити на ноги to use language of obscenity вживати лайливу лексику a condition of uncontrollable fury стан неопацованого гніву to foam at the mouth піна летить з рота waiting for the storm to wear itself out очікуючи, доки буря гніву вщухне to have a notion that... бути переконаним, що...to regret nothing ні про що не шкодувати his usual methods of treatment had failed його звичайні методи лікування виявилися неефективними