Word: compounding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Identity of his four-powered substance is sodium rhodanate, a crystallized compound of soda, sulphur and cyanide, otherwise called sodium thiocyanate...
...benzamine derivatives of coal tar. Negroes, who seldom complain of minor aches or pains, do not use those drugs. Poor people cannot afford them. Doctors get them as free samples. "We have seen few physicians," said Dr. Kracke last week, "who do not have a package of allonal, amytal compound, peralga, or other such drugs lying on their desk within easy reach. It is easy for the doctor and certainly common practice when members of his family become ill to reach for one of these 'newer and better' drugs with which he has been circularized and detailed...
...drug which most often causes granulopenia in the U. S. is amidopyrine (chemical name: dimethylamrno-phenyl dimethyl pyrazolone). Related drugs which Dr. Kracke also blames are: pyramidon, phenacetine, arsphenamine. neoarsphenamine, amytal compound, allonal, peralga, amidophen. Dinitrophenol causes the rapid oxidization of sugar and fat in the body. This year it killed at least two overeager fat-reducers (TIME, April 30). Dr. Kracke said he feared it would be exploited this winter as a weight reducer...
...weight reducing compound in any form should be used unless the patient is under strict observation by a thoroughly qualified physician." So declared Dr. Edward L. Bortz of Philadelphia to the American College of Physicians, meeting in Chicago last week. To such talk, patent medicine manufacturers and many a layman reply: "Humph, doctors trying to make more business for themselves...
Prima donna of chemistry, hydrogen is present in 300,000 known compounds. Deuterium promised to be a twin prima donna capable of producing 300,000 new compounds. Commonest hydrogen compound is hydrogen oxide-water. First and most obvious heavy hydrogen compound is deuterium oxide-heavy water. In fact this looks like ordinary water and is only 10 percent heavier...