Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anthony Ripley '50, S. David Kahn '50, and Robert W. Foster '50 discoved a blazing sofa in the room about 8:30 p.m., and promptly doused the flames with sulphuric acid from two portable extinguishers...
...sofa was reduced to ashes by the flames, and the rest of it was badly stained by smoke and sulphuric acid...
...cubic-centimeter ampoule of a drug he calls "glyoxylide." Until the law began reading them, the labels promised cures for "cancer, allergy, and infection." Food & Drug accuses him of claiming to cure "practically all human ills, including . . . tuberculosis." Glyoxylide, according to Dr. Koch, is the "internal anhydride" of glyoxylic acid. Chemists know all about glyoxylic acid, but they never heard of anybody having isolated its internal anhydride. Food & Drug Attorney William W. Goodrich said Government chemists could find nothing in it but distilled water, called it a "formula for nothing...
...Tuberculosis of the intestines is one of the most feared complications of TB of the lungs. The newest hope is eight-year-old PAS (for para-amino-salicylic acid). A highly optimistic report of its use by two Swedish doctors appeared in the Swedish medical journal Laekartidningen. Drs. Bo Carstensen and Stig Sjoelin reported trying PAS on 22 men & women whose chances were "hopeless or dubious" by ordinary methods of treatment. After two to four weeks' treatment (five to 14 grams of PAS a day) all 22 were "completely or almost completely" cured of abdominal symptoms. Pain disappeared completely...
...Indian-born physiologist and biochemist, director of research for the Lederle Laboratories (American Cyanamid Co.); in Pearl River, N.Y. As a Harvard graduate student, he pioneered in studies on muscular contraction, after going to Lederle concentrated on folic acid (part of the vitamin-B complex), helped develop its derivatives, teropterin and aminopterin (now being used to fight cancer), directed research that produced the new antibiotic, aureomycin (a cure for serious infections untouched by penicillin or streptomycin...