Word: alum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wringing her hands at the ringside, thought of his four months' training (golf, athlete's diet, and three hours daily at the key board), thought of the $100,000 insurance on his fingers, which were getting slippery in spite of the special preparation of talcum and alum with which they were coated, thought of the $10,000 that Royal would pay him for exhibitions if he won. He sprinted desperately...
When Alabama's poliomyelitis ("polio") epidemic intensified, Governor Bibb Graves ordered all inmates in State institutions to be given an immunizing nasal spray (picric acid + sodium alum), made it possible for State employes to have the same treatment for 10?. Taking advantage of his own proposition, Governor Graves called Dr. H. G. Camp, Chief State Prison Physician, into his office, had his own nostrils well flushed...
Last summer no reliable results came from anti-paralysis preventive vaccines (TIME, Sept. 9). This summer the U. S. Public Health Service and the Rockefeller Institute suggest spraying the nostrils with 4% sodium alum or tannic acid solution five or six days in succession in alternate weeks. This treatment toughens nasal membranes, definitely protects monkeys, at least does no harm to humans...
...Italy consents to an armistice on these terms, the League must guarantee the safety of Italian troops against Ethiopian attacks. Chairman de Madariaga withdrew looking as if he had swallowed a mouthful of alum...
...much success did Albert B. Sabin, Peter Kosciusko Olitsky & Harold R. Cox of the Rockefeller Institute have from spraying weak solutions of tannic acid or alum into the nostrils of monkeys that they boldly urged "a trial in man of these chemicals in the prevention of poliomyelitis during epidemics...