Word: compounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...capsule is the result of two years of work by Surgeon Captain Charles Herbert Best, codiscoverer of insulin, and Dr. Wilder Graves Penfield, director of the Montreal Neurological Institute. Using a double-ended swinging machine designed to make even sailors seasick (TIME, July 19), they first tested 60 antiseasickness compounds, found two which had a slight effect separately, a better effect together. They added another compound that was their own idea, colored the mixture pink for the psychological effect, put the stuff up in capsules to be taken every eight hours until sea legs are attained...
...every U.S. military and civilian surgeon. Reasons: 1) "the conclusions differ so fundamentally from those previously authorized for publication by the [U.S.] War Department, which were largely reached shortly after World War I"; 2) the article settles a long debate among surgeons about when & how to deal with compound skull fractures...
...synthesize nutmeg, Crocker analyzed the natural spice with his tongue and nose, then tried hundreds of chemical combinations to get the right shades of odor and flavor. The result was a compound of more than 40 different ingredients, including several varieties each of phenols, alcohols, esters and aldehydes. All these were mixed in a meal ground to nutmeg's consistency...
...battle, the Fourteenth Air Force is a handful of bold-eyed young men, haunted by the necessity of economy in the use of their too-few aircraft, inspired by the genius and unerring tactical wisdom of Major General Claire Lee Chennault. On the ground it is a strange compound of unselfish human labor: patient Chinese who work miracles by numbers and sweat where machines are inadequate or just not available; windburned Americans in dusty coveralls who whoop and holler as they work, spend their off hours talking about home...
Chemist Midgley buckled down, with a corps of able assistants, in Frigidaire's Dayton, Ohio laboratory. Compound after compound was examined, tested, cast aside. Finally Chemist Midgley hit on dichlorodifluoromethane (carbon; chlorine; water; and the mineral, fluorspar). It was nonpoisonous, odorless, would not support flame. For the second spectacular time, Midgley had rung the laboratory bell...