Word: bismuthate
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...fifty-five metallic groups, only fifteen have been extensively utilized utilized. From ancient times, gold, silver, Iron, copper, tin, zinc, lead, and mercury have been used. And within recent years the aluminum, antimony, bismuth, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, and nickel groups have also found uses...
...legs. Sharp pains dart along them, causing intense agony. Muscles may lose their tone, permit the limbs to dangle. The diagnostic problem is to discover and treat the original cause of the neural inflammation. This may be some toxin absorbed by the system, such as poisonous metals (lead, arsenic, bismuth, mercury) or carbon compounds (alcohol, Jamaica ginger, carbon monoxide, ether). Toxins may be generated, among other ailments, by childbed fever or diabetes. Neuritis may be the result of infections like diphtheria, typhoid, scarlet fever, measles, rheumatism, mumps, gonorrhea, smallpox, pneumonia, blood poisoning, malaria, tuberculosis, syphilis...
Last week Professor Paul John Hanzlik, a San Francisco pharmacologist who has long tried to dissolve bismuth in some fluid which syphilitics may swallow, announced success. His success implied a more comfortable method of treating the estimated 508,000 new cases of this venereal disease which develop in the U. S. each year...
...Bismuth and mercury, both heavy metals, and arsenic, a light metallike element, have destructive effects upon the twirling spirochete which causes syphilis. In the usual modern treatment some compound of arsenic, such as Neosalvarsan, is used as the main weapon, some form of mercury or bismuth as supplement. The arsenic compound is usually injected into a vein in the arm. Mercury or bismuth compounds are injected into the rump...
Many syphilologists give their patients bichloride of mercury to drink, carefully watching that the poison does not destroy the stomach, intestines or kidneys. Such syphilologists believe that potable mercury destroys spirochetes more effectively than mercury injections. Reasoning by analogy, they ask pharmacologists to produce a potable bismuth like the drink Professor Hanzlik announced. In his potion, which 200 San Franciscans have found harmless, which 40 San Francisco syphilitics have found beneficial, the solution is sodium bismuthate; the solvent, a mixture of propylene glycol and a new substance called tri-iso-propanolamine...