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...some had septic sore throats. Latest remedy for those grave conditions-and a good remedy in case of scarlet fever, erysipelas, and cerebrospinal meningitis-is sulfanilamide. Noting a great demand for sulfanilamide, 61-year-old Dr. Samuel Evans Massengill, who compounds veterinary medicines in a good-sized factory at Bristol, Tenn., this summer decided to add that drug to his line. Knowing that his Southern customers prefer their medicines in bottles,* he sought something in which to dissolve sulfanilamide, which had hitherto been taken in tablets and intravenous injections only. He decided to use diethylene glycol, a close relative...
...Federal Food & Drug Administration, a pugnacious Kentucky lawyer named Walter Gilbert Campbell, has agents posted throughout the country, watching for just such pharmaceutical accidents. Those men last week confiscated every last flask of the Massengill "elixir" upon which they could lay their hands. A Federal agent at Bristol said to Chief Campbell: "The most amazing thing about the company was the total lack of testing facilities. Apparently they just throw drugs together, and if they don't explode they are placed on sale." Dr. Massengill cooperated with the Food & Drug men by sending warning telegrams to all his sulfanilamide...
When in the late spring of 1497, John Cabot, middle-aged Italian navigator, hired out to England's Henry VII and sailed westward from Bristol, his destination was Asia, in particular Mecca, which he had already visited. On board the little three-masted Mathew were 18 men. Crammed under her planks were such trinkets, knives and cloths that "heathens and infidels" delight to trade for, and in the master's cupboard the commission by which His Majesty agreed to take only 20% of the profits of the trip...
...little man who was chairman of Cadbury Bros., Ltd. until five years ago, and his wife Geraldine, a Dame of the British Empire who told reporters: "I put 'D' on my cards but I wouldn't like to be called Dame." Energetic Joan Fry of the Bristol chocolate-making family was present, but B. Seebohm Rowntree, head of his family and business, did not appear as he had planned...
John C. Brechin, Bristol, rhode Island--Holderness School, Plymouth, New Hampshire...