Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chemical analysis, often a tedious process, can be greatly speeded and simplified by a new method developed in Europe was described by Czech Refugee Alois Langer. Every element and compound conducts electricity through a solution at a distinctive voltage. To find the amount of copper in a solution, the chemist tunes in an electric meter to the known voltage of copper, measures the proportionate amount of current passing through the solution. Complex organic molecules like vitamins and hormones can also be detected and measured...
What is Mind? "There remains however among the happenings met with in such a compound organism as ourselves," says Sherrington, "... a certain residue seemingly not thus resoluble" into chemico-physical energy-systems. This nonmaterial residue is the mind. Sherrington's half-century of studying the human brain has proved that mental behavior is not entirely reflex and thus rooted ultimately in matter (as Pavlov's Soviet disciples believe...
...died, Aroline Pinkham Gove and Charles Pinkham, each with a 50% share of their mother's business, kept her face enshrined on every package, signed her name in answering 100,000 letters a year from grateful or suffering women. By last year Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound had netted Lydia and descendants well over...
Since all advertisements advised readers to write "Mrs. Pinkham," since his mother was the only Mrs. Pinkham then living, Arthur had the post office send the mail to his home. He and his mother concocted a new vegetable compound, began selling it in competition with Lydia's. The Goves took him into the business...
...done in spite of the fact that during the past 40 years the pure food & drug laws, the Federal Trade Commission, the American Medical Association have forced the company to water down its once extravagant claims to a pompous nothingness. Current label: "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is Recommended as a Vegetable Tonic in Conditions for which this Preparation is Adapted." As for Lydia Gove, whose interests also include a $250,000 investment in the Howard Johnson ice cream & restaurant chain, her feud with the Pinkhams is not necessarily over. Her probable next move: an appeal...