Word: dimethyl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until 1963, dimethyl sulfoxide was just another liquid solvent used in industry. Then University of Oregon researchers reported that DMSO had varied medicinal properties-that, in fact, it was a wonder drug. Daubed on the skin, they said, it soothed not only the superficial pain of burns, but also the deep pain of crippling rheumatoid arthritis. It helped burns and wounds to heal faster; it eased itching-and cured athlete's foot...
...bananas really work? The best that chemists can suggest is that bananas contain serotonin, a neurochemical that is closely related to such potent mind-benders as psilocybin and dimethyl tryptamine, and which just might, under combustion, trigger genuine physiological effects. It is far more likely that any high produced by bananas is imaginary, another indication that, given a receptive state of mind, it is possible to turn on with practically anything-or virtually nothing. Witness the fact that some undergraduates, dissatisfied with mellow yellow, are already beginning to tout the high potentiality of yet another new ingredient: spider webs...
...virtually untested drug has ever been greeted with such optimistic fanfare as dimethyl sulfoxide, or DMSO, a colorless liquid extracted from paper-pulp wastes and commonly used as an industrial solvent. It has been widely hailed, both in the press and by some doctors, as a painkiller, a germ killer, diuretic, tranquilizer, a reliever of burns and sprains - besides being a wondrous solvent that enables other drugs to penetrate the skin and alleviate conditions as varied as crippling arthritis and athlete's foot. The surgeon who discovered DMSO's medicinal properties in 1963, Dr. Stanley W. Jacob...
...freeze the stomach wall, and that when it does, it may do irreparable damage. The Oregon spokesman, Dr. E. Douglas McSweeney Jr., said that supercooling to a temperature just below freezing point might be more effective than the Wangensteen technique. They have tried this by putting a medical antifreeze, Dimethyl Sulfoxide, into the stomach or nearby arteries and cooling...
After Dr. Yamamoto collected a working amount of sex lure, his colleagues. Chemists Martin Jacobson and Morton Beroza, determined its chemical structure. This called for long and delicate procedures. At last, the chemists decided that the active attractant is 2.2-dimethyl-3-isopropylidene-cyclopropyl propionate. In spite of its formidable name, it is not very complicated for an organic compound, so Jacobson and Beroza are sure that it can be synthesized in quantity without much trouble...