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...analogy of salvarsan, chemists have manufactured mercurochrome (red antiseptic recently commercialized and now a rival of iodine for first aid treatment), brilliant green, gentian violet, acriviolet, hexyl-resorcinal (put together by Professor Treat Baldwin Johnson of Yale and 50 times more powerful than carbolic acid) and many another. Many of them can be injected directly into the blood stream. Practically each week brings reports of new ones in the scientific periodicals. Their bases are tar, distilled from coal and modified according to the need of medicine and the will of chemistry. Monsol is another of their family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Antiseptic | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

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