Word: acidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...centuries ago British sailors learned to eat citrus fruits to keep free of scurvy. Within the past five years Vitamin C has been identified, its chemical structure determined, its synthetic preparation accomplished. Albert Szent-Györgyi of Hungary found a substance in animal adrenal glands, ascorbic acid, which turned out to be the same thing as Vitamin C, and extracted large quantities of ascorbic acid from paprika. Walter Norman Haworth of England plotted the architecture of the molecule and Paul Karrer of Switzerland synthesized...
...holds is for a container to diffuse the chemicals through the solution. But he argues, against the companies, that no formula works well for all plants, all climates, all conditions: and that even if they made a great variety of formulae there are other factors such as temperature and acid-alkali balance which must be thoroughly studied for successful hydroponics. Also, in his kindly if eccentric way,, he accuses them of victimizing "poor people" by selling chemicals worth a few cents at fancy prices ranging from...
...Stockholm last week a committee of Swedish doctors was deciding whether to give the 1937 Nobel Prize ($40,000) for Medicine to: 1) Biochemist Ibert Szent-Györgyi of the Hungarian University of Szeged who discovered that a certain acid (ascorbic) in the adrenal glands of healthy men and animals had the same beneficial effect as Vitamin C contained in oranges and lemons; 2) Biochemist Walter Norman Haworth of Birmingham (England) University, who analyzed the chemical structures of Vitamin C and the ascorbic acid which Professor Szent-Györgyi isolated; or 3) Biochemist Paul Karrer of the University...
...studies Dr. Szent-Györgyi found that the adrenal glands secrete a substance, ascorbic acid, which he subsequently discovered to be the same thing as Vitamin C. To further these studies, Dr, Szent-Györgyi needed large quantities of ascorbic acid, and his pursuit of it took him to a half-dozen European universities and the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn, where Dr. Edward Calvin Kendall, isolator of thyroid hormone and analyzer of adrenal cortex hormone, provided him with a big stock of adrenals fresh from South St. Paul stockyards. He still was not able to get enough...
Physiologist John Raymond Murlin of the University of Rochester announced that he and assistants have just perfected a compound of insulin and hexylresorcinol which may be swallowed as a tablet. It is effective because the hexylresorcinol neutralizes pepsin and acid, and emulsifies fat. Thus there remains nothing to impede insulin's absorption by the diabetic's sugar-laden body...