Word: chloral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Houdry Process Corp.) had decided that the easiest way to get DDT was to make it himself. He was turning it out by the gallon in his cellar. Said Steuber: any competent chemist can figure out the formula and make DDT out of non-priority materials. The ingredients are: chloral hydrate (better known as "Mickey Finn"), monochlor benzine, and concentrated sulfuric acid...
...Weeping and the Laughter. When Ernest was 27, Father Dowson put an end to his own misery with an overdose of chloral. A few months later his mother hanged herself. Soon afterward "Missie" married one of her father's waiters. Dowson fled to France, declaring: "I have no lungs left to speak of, an apology for a liver, and a broken heart...
...death two years ago, there had been a vacant look in Tony's eye. He was scarcely aware of the veterinarian and taxidermist when they came in. A few seconds later he was no longer aware of anything. The veterinarian had injected five ounces of chloral hydrate into Tony's heart. At once the taxidermist set about flaying the cadaver so that Tony (stuffed) may tour the country for the benefit of Boy Scouts, other boys' organizations...
...treatment for all cases, from ulcers to neuroses, was the same: several hundred patients gathered three times a week at his clinic, lined up before a "cocktail window," received a brownish liquid in a paper cup. The mixture was called A.T.O.P., for reasons unknown, and contained the powerful drugs chloral hydrate, bromides, digitalis. After drinking this potion (which often made them giddy, set them a-warbling), patients proceeded in line to "treatment" by Dr. Cowles. New patients were examined and interviewed by two of Dr. Cowles's non-medico assistants. Placing one hand against the patient's stomach...
...drugs may perform their germicidal miracles by preferentially anesthetizing disease bacteria so that they are easily overpowered by the body's natural defenses.) When most narcotics had stopped bacterial luminescence, compression of the solution restored the glow. But pressure will not restore luminescence blacked out by sulfa compounds, chloral hydrate ("knockout drops") and some other drugs. (Conclusion: most narcotics put the enzyme molecules out of action by loosening their structure which can be put together again, but the sulfa drugs, chloral hydrate, etc., change the chemical composition of the enzyme...