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Word: benzoic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Columbia set out to discover what happens in the body to benzoic acid, a nitrogen compound used as a food preservative. In the test acid he substituted heavy nitrogen for ordinary nitrogen. Feeding it to laboratory animals, he found that about 70% of the acid passed through the walls of the intestine combined with glycine and was eliminated by the kidneys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atomic Scheme | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

Benzoate, On the premises i) that constipation causes arthritis and 2) that the calcium double salt of benzyl succinic and benzoic acids eliminates intestinal toxins from the system, Herman Seydel, Jersey City manufacturing chemist, this week argued before the American Chemical Society in Pittsburgh that this bitter benzoate cures arthritis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Trial & Error | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...most successful professional treatments for ringworm include these: opening any blisters and applying cool wet dressings of diluted aluminum acetate liquor or of saturated boric acid; painting daily with a strong solution of permanganate of potash, tincture of iodine, or mercurochrome; anointing with a salve of salicylic and benzoic acids, of ammoniated mercury, or of chrysarobin; exposing to X-rays; soaking in gasoline (six or eight seconds). Combinations of the above may be dangerous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ringworm | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

...from his staff who at his command ate only adulterated foods. Their sufferings he reported with dramatic detail. The "Poison Squad" won him general public support. As a result unscrupulous manufacturers must be skillfully stealthy to put into their products boric acid, borax, salicylic acid, salicylates, sulphurous acid, sulphites, benzoic acid, benzoates (except traces), formaldehyde, copper sulphate, saltpeter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pure Food Man | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

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