Word: compounding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bedside of a patient stricken with deadly peritonitis. In desperation he fed her a German-made drug, never before used in the U. S. The patient rapidly recovered. Dr. Mellon then plunged into an intensive study of the action of this drug, a combination of benzene, a sulfur compound and naphthalene, called prontosil. He learned that: 1) one of its three ingredients, naphthalene, was medically worthless; 2) sulfanilamide, a cheaper U. S. product, composed of the other two ingredients, would do everything prontosil could do. Last fortnight, together with Dr. Paul Gross and Frank B. Cooper, Pittsburgh Institute of Pathology...
...about the colleges owned or supported by foreigners. But it is not easy for aviators to be sure where their bombs will land. No more easy, therefore, was continuance of sessions at such universities as Nanking and Ginling, in the heart of bomb-riddled Nanking. Nanking University's compound began to be rocked with dugouts and shell holes. Five of the 13 colleges were obliged to move kit & boodle inland, at great expense. Yet all 13 completed the year's work. Moreover, they carried on two extraordinary extracurricular activities...
Rural journalism began as a sideline for job printers. Its editorial basis was local gossip; its financial foundation was patent medicines-Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, Sloan's Liniment, Beecham's Pills, Carter's Little Liver Pills, which were among the first national advertisers. Today there are 11,852 country papers, nearly half of them more than 50 years old, 151 more than 100 years...
Money accumulated from contributions to the fund will be turned over each year to the University where it will be invested at the current rate of compound interest. This money is to be put aside until 1963, when it will be turned over to the University as the 1938 class gift on its twenty-fifth Anniversary...
...produced a chemical known as methylcholanthrene, a complex compound of hydrogen and carbon which is very powerful in producing cancer in test animals. This chemical can also be obtained from the bile acids of the human body; therefore, cancer cay be the result of abnormal physiological actions which lead to the manufacture within the body of some chemical of the methylcholanthrene type...