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...efficiently equipped laboratories and hospitals on the west bank of the East River, Manhattan, has contributed to science many a life-saving discovery: curative sera for one of the fatal forms of pneumonia and for epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis; the microbes causing infantile paralysis and yellow fever; the Carrel-Dakin method of treating infected wounds...
...used by doctors in prescribing and by druggists in filling prescriptions. This year's book adds 40 new drugs and preparations and takes out 192. Some additions: aspirin, salvarsan, carbon tetrachlorid used for hookworm, some local anesthetics and a surgical solution of chlorinated soda, known as the Carrell-Dakin solution that received notoriety during the war. Whiskey and brandy, taken out of the last Pharmacopoeia, are put back in this...
...Alexis Carrel (1873-), American, member Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, discoverer of methods of suturing blood vessels and transplanting human organs, co-discoverer of Carrel-Dakin solution...
...surrounding bill is obviously put in to while away the time for the appearance of Ethel Barrymore. Charles Harrison and Sylvia Dakin in a musical tidbit "The Three of Us" was the shining lights among otherwise mediocre acts...
University of Leeds--Henry Drysdale Dakin, D.Sc., F.I.C...