Word: acidity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...possible cure for stomach ulcers was last week announced by an eminent physiologist, Andrew Conway Ivy of Northwestern University. Most doctors hold that ulcers are caused by an overactive stomach, which constantly gushes acid, erodes its own walls. For years Dr. Ivy has tried to curb this acid formation. To the members of the American Physiological Society meeting in Chicago last week he described a hormone which seems to turn the trick: enterogastrone, extracted from hog intestines...
Sometimes foods become poisoned by contact with certain metals. Leaving food in a tin can is perfectly safe, provided it is kept in the icebox. But acid foods should not be prepared in galvanized iron utensils. Although arsenic sprays are not strong enough to cause immediate poisoning, Dr. Chandler suggests soaking all fruits and vegetables which are eaten without peeling in a crock of 1% hydrochloric acid for a few minutes. This dunking should be followed by a thorough washing...
...Mule feed"-pressed cotton seeds eaten only by the hungriest mules-can be combined with carbolic-acid derivatives to form a new plastic, reported Fritz Rosenthal of the University of Tennessee...
...Therapeutic Research have painstakingly poisoned 30,000 rats, mice and rabbits in their research work. When they gave the animals huge doses of sulfa drugs, or of common poisons, the scientists found that five basic substances present in normal blood promptly dwindled or disappeared. The vital chemicals: 1) ascorbic acid (vitamin C); 2) choline, a nitrogen compound, a constituent of nerve tissue; 3) cystine, a sulfur-containing compound found in hair and finger nails; 4) glycine, a protein derivative found in bile; 5) glucuronic acid, an organic acid found in urine...
Today's encounter will be the first of a series of acid tests for a nine that Stahl terms "a much stronger unit than last year's team." In four preliminary games last week in the southern trip the squad turned in a not-too-impressive record of one win and three losses. Two of the games were dropped by a margin of only...