Word: compounders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years later, Quentin Compson. who was one of the principal figures of The Sound and the Fury, heard fragments of this story, with fact and fiction intermingled. At Harvard he discussed the whole tragedy with his roommate, and the book is apparently the fruit of that discussion, a compound of their speculations, Quentin's memories of his father's words, of his last glimpse of the last living Sutpen. Thus Author Faulkner leaves it up to the reader to decide how much of the story is a reflection of the boy's inflamed imagination. For example...
...year later August von Wassermann of Germany devised his Famed blood test for diagnosing the disease. In 1910 Biochemist Paul Ehrlich, once more of Germany, after 605 laboratory experiments, finally hit upon a positive ure for syphilis. Popularly called 606 or Salvarsan, this Ehrlich remedy was technically a compound of arsenic known as arsphenamine. With the cause & cure well in hand, world medicine was fully equipped to move forcefully against one of the worst scourges of the human race...
...less eager to publicize itself and its doings than is the American Medical Association. Early last week the Society's publicity department handed reporters a copy of a speech by a Jersey City manufacturing chemist named Herman Seydel in which that Doctor of Philosophy declared that a compound of benzoates of his devising was the long-sought single cure for arthritis (TIME, Sept. 14). The speech was released for immediate publication, though Chemist Seydel was not to deliver it before the Society, meeting in Pittsburgh, until four days later. So closely watched is all news pertaining to health that...
...American Pharmaceutical Association's convention in Dallas last week Dr. Paul Goedrich of the New Jersey College of Pharmacy described a new iodine-bile compound called iodocholeate. On the basis of 2,000 clinical tests, iodocholeate has been found...
Last week the first synthetic production of theelin was announced in the American Chemical Society's Journal by Dr. Russell E. Marker and his associate, Thomas S. Oakwood, of Pennsylvania State College. From yeast Researchers Marker & Oakwood obtained ergosterol, an organic compound related to Vitamin D-producing cholesterol. From an ergosterol derivative, which they acetylated, oxidized with chromic acid, hydrolized and distilled, they built up the white crystals of theelin...