Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About this time, too, gout appeared, as shown by uric acid deposits in joints, and by swollen great toes and knees. Cancer appeared first a century or two before Christ. But tuberculosis appeared in the Fifth Dynasty (27th Century, B. C.) This mummy's spine was affected. Ramses V (circa, 11th Century, B. C.) had smallpox. Mummies packed away 6,000 years ago had gallstones. Gravel in the kidneys first appeared 5,000 years ago, and pelvic abscesses became a frequent affliction 30 centuries back...
...What common acid is present in small quantities in the human stomach...
...thinking how terrible it would be if such a thing should happen in his institution, when news reached him that pretty Bernice Richardson, 20, one of his freshmen, whom he had just interviewed, had been found moaning on the floor of her room. She had drunk carbolic acid; died within an hour. In their interview President Penney had had to tell her that, since she had failed in French course, she could not register for the next term. Sorority "rushing" was a week away. Miss Richardson's roommate said the carbolic acid had been in their room for months...
...Arbor, Mich., on Jan. 27, Henry R. Kasson, 22, junior in the University of Michigan, who had lately suffered concussion of the brain in a motor smash, wrote out a check and a letter (explaining nothing) for his roommate, opened his copy of Dante's Inferno, drank acid and died...
...high explosive made chiefly of picric acid, used to fill shells...