When younger, as an older teenager about 18 or 19 years old, while living in his parent's home, a small estate with a separate cottage and a small greenhouse, the young man who was to become Beefheart's manager worked in a testing facility somewhere in the San Fernando Valley that was in some way attached to a laboratory and pharmaceutical company. His job was to tend to the dogs who were used for experimentation of new substances. He had a St Bernard, remember, and could get along with dogs and genuinely liked them.<\b> <\b> The company that marketed the pharmaceutical product was called Riker. The drug they had developed c. 1964 was called Deaner. At the time, the drug was marketed and designated for use only for children, those who were overactive or "hyperkinetic". This drug was examined and eventually written about in a journal published by Britain's Royal Pharmaceutical Society in 1977, in the study called <\b> <\b>"2-Dimethylaminoethanol (Deaner) in body fluids"<\b> <\b> Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology<\b> <\b> Volume 29, Issue 1, pages 373–374, September 1977<\b> <\b> Gunnel Ceder,<\b> <\b> Jan Schuberth*<\b> <\b> Article first published online: 12 APR 2011<\b> <\b> DOI: 10.1111/j.2042-7158.1977.tb11341.x<\b> <\b> 1977 Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Brit<\b> <\b> The drug made it to the marketplace and met with some success until withdrawn in 1983. When a pharmaceutical spin off called "Deanol" appeared, which had a wide variety of uses for suggestion prescription under ICD-9. And ICD-10 had even more.<\b> <\b> "Deaner Pharmaceutical active ingredients containing related brand and generic drugs, medications or other health care products: Deanol Acetamidobenzoate Deaner available forms, composition, doses: N/A Deaner destination | category: Human: Biochemical precursors Indications and usages, anatomical therapeutic chemical and diseases classification codes: N06BX04 - Deanol Pharmaceutical companies, researchers, developers, manufacturers, distributors and suppliers: 3M"<\b> <\b><\b> <\b> More: <\b> <\b> Deaner Pharmaceutical active ingredients containing related brand and generic drugs, medications or other health care products: Deanol Acetamidobenzoate Deaner available forms, composition, doses: N/A Deaner destination | category: Human: Biochemical precursors Indications and usages, anatomical therapeutic chemical and diseases classification codes: N06BX04 - Deanol Pharmaceutical companies, researchers, developers, manufacturers, distributors and suppliers: 3M <\b> <\b><\b> <\b> The ICD-10 had even more spin off psychoactive and nootropic drugs listed available for prescription and use. <\b> <\b><\b> <\b> <\b> <\b> <\b> <\b> Deaner, the brand name for deanol, was a drug primarily prescribed for learning disabilities in children. Based on my references, deaner was not specifically used for the treatment of aphasia. However, the prescribing physician may have believed that there was merit in taking deaner for this condition. Deaner was marketed by a company called Riker (currently 3M Pharmaceutical). Although the drug was considered to be safe, it was discontinued in 1983 because there was no evidence that deaner was effective. To my knowledge, there are no prescription drugs like deaner which are indicated for the treatment of aphasia." <\b> <\b> <\b> <\b> This is all very interesting, perhaps to students of medicine and pharmacology, but for people like me, at the time in 1964 Deaner barely had a name. And Beefheart's former manager was a teenager and liked dogs, and was good with them, so he got a job as a kennel worker in a pharmaceutical testing laboratory, a job that had ended when this photo was taken.<\b> <\b><\b> <\b>   ¶ 8/23/2013 06:22:00 PM