Word: diethyl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just another patent medicine. During a trip to Madagascar, Paris Pharmacist Georges Feuillet, who was already turning out 15 patent drugs, developed furunculosis (boils), and began experimenting with a new remedy. He used a combination of vitamin F* and an organic tin compound containing iodine (called di-iodo-diethyl of tin), which he imagined had a healing effect on skin. Feuillet took some of his capsules, then sent them to a friend, the head of a military hospital, who tried them out on his patients and found them "successful." Soon the Ministry of Health cleared them for sale without prescription...
...best all-purpose insect repellent so far developed," in the words of the Department of Agriculture, will soon be released for commercial sale. Army volunteers found that the odorless fluid-a new diethyl toluamide compound-when rubbed on the skin offered protection against mosquitoes, chiggers, ticks, fleas, and biting flies...
...Full name: O, O-diethyl S-(ethylthiomethyl) phosphorodithioate...