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...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...
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...
...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...
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...
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...