amphetamine boosts performance in tests of simple repetitive tasks but reduces performance in complex tasks through poor judgment inappropriate perseverance and overly optimistic self-evaluation: we hope any Army or Navy physician who wishes a Benzedrine Inhaler for his personal use will return the coupon below - effects of usage include addiction, psychotic behavior and brain damage
Benzedrine advertisements, 1943 & 1944.
Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 123, No. 10; Vol. 124, No. 12.

Benzedrine Inhaler is available to High Altitude Flying Personnel!
Benzedrine Inhaler is now an official item of issue in the Army Air Forces.
It is available to Flight Surgeons for distribution to high altitude flying personnel, for relief of nasal congestion.
Benzedrine Inhaler ~ A Volatile Vasoconstrictor... Outstandingly Convenient, But, First and Foremost, A Highly Effective Therapeutic Agent.
Each Benzedrine Inhaler contains raceimic amphetamine, S.K.F., 250 mg.; oil of lavender, 75 mg.; and menthol, 12.5 mg.
Smith Kline & French Laboratories         Philadelphia

To Physicians in the Armed Forces
All last winter physicians in the Armed Forces kept writing us for their "usual" BENZEDRINE INHALERS.
* Evidently, under Service conditions—the most exacting test of practical usefulness—Benzedrine Inhaler demonstrated its unique combination of convenience and therapeutic effectiveness.
* So we hope that any Army or Navy physician who wishes a Benzedrine Inhaler for his personal use, will return the coupon below or drop us a postcard. (We have no other way of obtaining your address.)
* Smith, Kline & French Laboratories, 107 N. Fifth St., Philadelphia 5, Pa.
Benzedrine Inhaler ~ A Volatile Vasoconstrictor ~ In the new plastic tube...
Each tube is packed with racemic amphetamine, S.K.F. 250 mg.; oil of lavender, 75 mg.; and menthol, 25 mg.   Benzedrine is S.K.F.'s trademark, Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.
Smith, Kline & French Laboratories, 107 N. Fifth St., Philadelphia 5, Pa.
In accordance with your offer to physicians in the Armed Forces, please send me one of your new plastic BENZEDRINE INHALERS.
Name_____________________________ Address_______________________________
Ten sample-size BENZEDRINE INHALERS. No person whose duties involve the making of difficult decisions, should be permitted to take Benzedrine in a crisis.
Ten sample-size Benzedrine Inhalers. In use this sample lasts about 2 days; the larger sales size, 2 or 3 months.

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"As RAF scientist D.R. Davis wrote in a postwar summary of British Aviation research, amphetamine can boost performance in tests of simple repetitive tasks, but it reduces performance in complex tasks through poor judgment, inappropriate perseverance, and overly optimistic self-evaluation."  ~ Nicolas Rasmussen, On speed: the many lives of amphetamine, New York University Press, 2008.

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