Drug Traces

Series

Series Name

Tomorrow Today

Issue

Issue No.

98

Date Released

1972

Length of issue (in feet)

512

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1SPZ
2. 2Drug Traces
3. 3Bug Eats Bug
4. 4Kaowool

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: A gas chromatograph and a mass spectrometer, two machines, which when used in conjunction with a computer, can identify in under two hours any foreign drug in the blood stream. Previously it would take at least twenty-four hours, and this new technique not only allows rapid diagnoses where a patient is unconscious through unknown drugs, it can also help in the detection of elusive diseases.

Keywords

Health and medicine; Science and technology; Inventions and discoveries

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 49 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/98

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Presenter

Howard Williams

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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