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Then I looked at the contents label for this "baby shampoo:" water, amphoteric-19, polysorbate 20, PEG-150 distearate, sorbatan laurate, boric acid, fragrance and... benzyl alcohol...
...minute, as she has since last Feb. 23. She has not tried Syvertson's method. Suggestions received in 8,000 letters have included such standard remedies as breathing in & out of a paper bag and eating ice cream. Doctors at Greene County Memorial Hospital have tried sedatives, anesthesia, benzyl benzoate (a relaxing drug), quinidine sulfate (a quinine-like drug used to regulate abnormal heart rhythms), amyl nitrite (a drug used to treat angina pectoris...
...most syntheses, was to break down natural penicillin-G into simpler compounds which could be made artificially, then try to make these combine into penicillin. Dr. du Vigneaud and his associates started (as others had before them) with two decomposition products-dextro-penicilla-mine hydrochloride and 2-benzyl-4-meth-oxymethylene-5(4)-oxazolone. Over & over again they made them combine under different conditions...
...clear up by itself. Scratching only spreads it. The old-fashioned treatment was heroic: sulfur ointment-which often caused another kind of skin eruption-and boiling sheets! and clothes (now known to be unnecessary) every time they were used. In recent years dermatologists have been curing itchers with benzyl benzoate, which causes less rash. They are now experimenting with a concoction of DDT, benzyl benzoate to kill the mites and a secret ingredient which kills the eggs, in the skin-deep burrows...
...British medical officer reports curing 1,000 cases of scabies (itchy skin infestation caused by barely visible burrowing parasites) by painting patients "from neck to soles with a 20% benzyl benzoate emulsion." He claims his method is faster and cheaper than the classic system of baths, sulfur ointment and sterilization of clothes and bedclothes. Only 0.92% of his patients needed a second coat...