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For ten years, Dr. Veader Leonard and a group of confreres in the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, have worked with poisons-salts, acids, fats, with blue canisters of strange mineral, with bottles of green, fatal syrup. They sought that latter-day elixir, a fluid deadly...
Dr. Leonard began his experiments with carbolic acid, which, as is well known, kills disease germs and man with equal despatch. To resorcinol (very similar to carbolic acid) certain "fatty" acids were linked. The result was, at first, both an excellent antiseptic and a deadly poison. As the molecular proportion...
Warily, Dr. Leonard administered some of this fluid to a rabbit. The small creature lived. He took. some himself, survived. His attendants each swallowed their doses, were not harmed. Then the antiseptic was administered in some cases of kidney disease in the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Within 48 hours, these cases...
New Antiseptic. Research in the Brady Urological Institute of Johns Hopkins University conducted since 1917 has resulted in the development of a new antiseptic, "mercurochrome."
Administered intravenously or otherwise, it was found to produce no ill effects on the body, but has an antiseptic effect against the germs of a great many diseases. It has been tested against 255 diseases. In many of them, the number of cases treated was so small that it has...