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...laboratory in Basel, looking for a drug to protect plants against insects. Trying one combination of chemicals after another, he finally found one that killed flies. He took some of the stuff home, and discovered that it killed mosquitoes too. Dr. Mller's compound was dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane...
...doctors have found another painkiller. In a recent issue of the British Medical Journal, Drs. W. M. Wilson and R. B. Hunter of Edinburgh described tests on a new "analgesic" called C.B. II (short for 4:4 -diphenyl -6 -morpho-linoheptan-3-one hydrochloride). It has eased pain from heart disease, sciatica, gangrene, pleurisy, other notorious pain causers. So far no serious disadvantages have shown up. Apparently the drug is not habit-forming...
Beetle Blaster. Last week the developers of DDT, Geigy Co., Inc., an old dye firm with branches in Switzerland and New York, told reporters in Manhattan how the chemical was discovered. Like penicillin, DDT was known long before its usefulness was appreciated. A complicated chemical (full name: dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane), whose chief ingredients are chlorine, alcohol and sulfuric acid, DDT was first synthesized in 1874 by a German student named Othmar Zeidler. He had no idea of its possibilities as an insecticide, dismissed his discovery in six lines in a German chemical journal...
...difficult to stop a fit once it starts. But several drugs, taken over a long period of time, can cut down the number and force of convulsions, even eliminate them entirely. The drugs include the barbiturates, a promising new drug called sodium diphenyl hydantoinate (Dilantin), and the old-fashioned bromides. The last have one great drawback: in indiscriminate doses they cause "intoxication," skin rashes, hallucinations. A high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet has also brought excellent results, say the doctors, but it is unpleasant to take. In many cases hard exercise cuts down fits. If the fits are caused by brain...
...years Fairgoers have gaped at the capsule, gleaming at the bottom of its open well. One day this week, from a huge, hot caldron, 500 Ib. of petroleum pitch, chlorinated diphenyl and mineral oil were poured into the well, to act as a packing indefinitely resistant to moisture and soil acids. On the stroke of noon, the well was sealed. A crowd of spectators bared their heads. A bugle sounded taps. The capsule started on its long journey through time...