Word: alcohols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smith had moved its New York office to Brooklyn, where Mr. Thompson interviewed a "funny looking customer" named Vernard who remarked: "I hear you're doing a lot of alcohol business these days." Mr. Thompson found that the crude drug department warehouses were nothing but addresses-one a stenographer's, another a mimeograph operator's. While he was wondering what to do next, the receivership was granted...
...British Empire which is daily exalted in the stentorophonic Beaverbrook press is not the semi-religious conception of Disraeli, nor the gaudy military pageant of Kipling. It is a practical matter, in which plans for extracting power alcohol from nipa palms and wrapping paper from bamboo are seriously discussed as matters of statecraft. But it is also an Empire that is very close to today's realities-an Empire usually on the defensive, hiding its weak spots, conserving its treasures and its energy...
...experiments followed the same basic pattern: one group of rabbits was immunized with Type I antipneumococcus serum,* then half the group was stupefied with large doses of ethyl alcohol (or ether) that kept them under from three to 30 hours. Then the entire group received injections of Type I pneumococci. A second group of control animals was not immunized, but half that group was intoxicated and all were injected with the virulent germs, either in the flank or the lung...
...hours, and all got well. But even though inflammation developed after the intoxicated animals recovered from their drunken stupor, it did not save any of them if bacteria had run rampant even for so short a period as three hours. Dr. Pickrell did not determine the minimal amount of alcohol which would inhibit the body's defense mechanisms...
...newly dead rabbits. Ordinarily the leucocytes (white blood cells) which circulate aimlessly through the body, flow with great rapidity to a site of infection, where they envelop and absorb the invading bacteria. No leucocytes gathered to defend the intoxicated rabbits. Contrary to common medical belief, said Dr. Pickrell, alcohol does not paralyze the defensive leucocytes. Rather it prevents the blood vessels from dilating and makes their walls impermeable, thus trapping the leucocytes and preventing their migration...