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Word: benzoic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Except for vitamins A and D, which are not manufactured chemically, are sold only as concentrates from fish-liver oils. * The five: biotin, choline, inositol, para-amino-benzoic acid, folic acid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Vitamin Bandwagon | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...real, the bacteria fail to multiply, so that the blood's white corpuscles can easily destroy their limited numbers. How slight is the lethal error which the bacteria make is shown by the similar chemical names: sulfanilamide is para-amino-benzene-sulfonamide; the growth factor is para-amino-benzoic acid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How Sulfa-Drugs Work | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

...combat athlete's foot (dermatophytosis)-the itch caused by the toe-burrowing fungi dermatophytes which infest locker rooms and swimming pools-there are at least a hundred bland salves and powders on the market. Favorites: boric acid and sulfur powders, salves of salicylic acid and benzoic acid mixed with vaseline; an ether-collodion mixture. These generally clear up the mild, itching cases which annoy millions of people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Athlete's Foot | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

Martin's audacious theory (already tested with rats and chicks) will be tested later this month on a volunteer group of Sing Sing convicts, who are now guinea-pigging the darkening effects of a B vitamin (para-amino-benzoic acid) on grey hair (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Let 'Em Eat Grass | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

...However, several biochemists last week reported that prematurely grey hair can be warded off and even darkened again by para-amino-benzoic acid, a member of the vitamin B complex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Infant Science of Old Age | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

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