Word: compounds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Porter-Porter, who considered her compound appellation a social asset of considerable potency, became indignant when the Noble Lord chose to ignore the repetition...
...hematin, the red iron core which carries oxygen into the blood. Hans Fischer, 47, of the Munich (Germany) Institute of Technology worked on the problem 17 years and, last week, reported success. His synthetic he calls Hematine. In normal breathing, the blood's hemoglobin, which includes hemochromogen (compound of hematin), takes oxygen from the lungs and forms unstable oxyhemoglobin. Oxyhemoglobin readily gives its oxygen to body cells. When carbon monoxide is breathed, very stable carbon monoxide hemoglobin* results and the body cells cannot burn off their wastes, death results. In such poisoning Prof. Fischer's synthetic hematine...
Cacodyl isocyanide, new, vicious compound of poisonous cyanogen, kills instantly. It would, he commented with juggernaut impassivity, "destroy armies as a man might snuff out a candle. . . . War, if it comes again, and is to be deadly, will never again be fought with shot & shell. It can't be, for it is too much cheaper to destroy life wholesale with this new gas. It may be manufactured at the rate of thousands of tons a day and it costs much less than powder & cannon, yet it will destroy armies more thoroughly, more effectively, and more cheaply...
...base of a new general principle of chemotherapy, I succeeded in producing new gold compounds, which are incorporated through the skin, by simply rubbing them in. Thus the local reaction and the toxical amount, are avoided. The work is still in its experimental stage. Should the results prove in future to be so promising as they have been hitherto, I should be glad to furnish this new compound to the U. S. A. leprosy wards for trial...
...their German friends, who brought it to the U. S., where it was first made commercially in St. Louis. Some physicians recommend sauerkraut for constipation, intestinal putrefaction, because the lactic acid responsible for the sour taste keeps down the birthrate of putrefying bugs. * Furfural, a chemical compound made from corncobs or oat hulls, once a museum curiosity, is now used in the preparation of synthetic resin as bakelite; in the preservation of railroad ties, telegraph poles, shingles; in the flavoring of tobacco; the solvents of shoe dyes and leather dressings. Furfural, if necessary, could substitute for gasoline...