Word: compounding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First he worked under Professor Leopold Lichtwitz in the State Hospital at Altona, later under Professor Alexander von Lichtenberg at St. Hedwig Hospital, Berlin. To Altona, Professor Arthur H. Binz, organic chemist, sent an iodine compound which he wanted Professor Lichtwitz to use on cows infected with streptococci. The compound was N-methyl-5-iodo-z-pyridon. Dr. Swick, inquisitive, knew about all the scientific work going on at Altona. With a retentive memory, he knew that Dr. Leonard George Rowntree of the Mayo Clinic in 1923 had illuminated the kidneys & ureters faintly with sodium iodide. The iodine created...
...apologist for it is Rev. Dr. Alfred J. Case, Methodist pastor who lent his pulpit to Mayor Edward Ewing Roberts during his campaign for re-election last March. Recalling that Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals had called Reno a "compound of Sodom, Gomorrah and perdition," Dr. Case said that Reno's churches were wellattended, that the community in general was suffering no bad effects...
Electroplating is the only practical way of putting on tungsten coats. But the electroplater needs a stable solution of a tungsten salt in water. Most tungsten compounds decompose in water or else are altogether insoluble. Professor Fink's accomplishment was to prevent the tungsten atom of his sodium tungstate molecule from going into another tungsten compound. The tungsten atom, thus kept free from changing relations, could be driven by an electric current and deposited on pieces of brass, copper, zinc, iron or carbon...
...hard did the Pinkham family work to make the Compound a success that two sons predeceased their mother (Dan at 33, Will at 28). Lydia died at 64 but the Vegetable Compound went marching...
...Lydia Pinkham's belief in her own invention, thinks her opportunism may have been socially useful. "The overwrought key of the advertising, its appeal to beware of vague symptoms, such as the blues and dissatisfaction with life, and the hysterical note of the testimonials, suggest that the Vegetable Compound cured that additional weakness that was largely psychic. Who is to say it may not have done this job as well as psychoanalysis...