Word: arsenicals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Eddy's Manning essay was on "Arsenic Elimination in the Reverberatory Refining of Native Copper." When the prices of copper and silver (which are often found in copper ores) are high, it is economic to separate the metals from intrusive materials by electrolysis. But when prices are as low as they are now (last week: copper, 7? per lb., and silver. 30? per oz.), copper mines and refineries must be shut down or copper reduction must be accomplished more cheaply. Professor Eddy pointed out ways of cheapening production...
Cuba. Newspapers suddenly charged last week that a Major Arsenic Ortiz, former military supervisor of Oriente Province, and Lieut. Felipe Valle and Corporal Jose Heredia were responsible for the assassination of 44 political prisoners at Santiago in recent months. Soldiers saved the life of Corporal Heredia from a riotous mob. Lieutenant Valle either committed suicide or was murdered. He left a note which approaches the height of understatement for a 44-fold assassin: "In a moment of weakness I have done things I am ashamed...
...annually destroy a negligible amount of wheat- perhaps destroy a 50 acres. But already this year 1,000 acres have been leveled in that area. Therefore last week Nebraska farmers were to be seen at a strange occupation. They were spreading bran mash, poisoned with Paris green or white arsenic, throughout their wheat fields. It is a well-known cutworm remedy...
Glutathione. At the National Institute of Health, Pharmacologist Director Carl Voegtlin & associates observed that an organic sulphur compound, glutathione, present in all living body cells, is concerned with the body's defense against the toxic action of arsenic and certain other poisons. Glutathione occurs in large quantities in cancer cells. It occurred to Professor Voegtlin and Dr. Harold W. Chalkley, an associate, that glutathione might be a contributing cause of cancer. Forthwith they immersed amoebae (single- celled animalcules) in a glutathione solu-tion.* The amoebae reproduced themselves by subdivision (as all cells do) with extraordinary ease, confirming the Voegt...
Then one night Julius Abbey was found dead after one of his stag parties. When an autopsy disclosed arsenic in his stomach everyone was sure Melton had murdered him. Even her sophisticates thought she was guilty, but they were loyal, only admired her the more. Things looked black for Melton at the trial, but at the last minute a dying man's false affidavit acquitted her. The sophisticates were overjoyed, had a higher old intellectual time than ever. Three of them wanted to marry her and take a chance on being her next victim. Of Melton's three...