Word: elixirs
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...proven so useful as a treatment for "coccus" infections (streptococcus, gonococcus, meningococcus) and there has been so much to learn about its effects that practically every issue of every medical journal has referred to it. Several months ago, following the deaths of two score Southerners who had taken an "elixir" of sulfanilamide & diethylene glycol (TIME, Dec. 20, et ante), the Journal of the American Medical Association published a survey of sulfanilamide's uses and dangers. But so many new discoveries have occurred that the New England Journal of Medicine had Dr. Maurice A. Schnitker of Harvard's Peter...
...quiet town of Fécamp, France, some 25 miles northeast of Le Havre, the Benedictine monks for centuries had a monastery. In 1510 one of the monks, Dom Bernardo Vincelli, discovered that a magnificent cordial could be made by mixing certain herbs with honey, sugar and alcohol. Named "Elixir," the beverage lured King Francis I to Fécamp in 1534 to drink it, was a European favorite by the time of the French Revolution. Then the Benedictine monastery at Fécamp was destroyed, the monks dispersed, the secret of Elixir apparently lost forever. In 1863, however, Monsieur...
...last week the score of those who took the so-called elixir,* according to the U. S. Pure Food & Drug Administration which wants Dr. Massengill to show cause why he should not be prosecuted for criminal carelessness, stood at: 73 dead "as a direct result of taking the drug," and 20 more dead for whom "it has not yet been established that this drug was exclusively responsible...
Currently Dr. Massengill is circularizing his customers with a broadside, in which he declares that he did not know that the diethylene glycol part of his "elixir" might be poisonous, that he believes responsibility for the poisonings may be due to his "elixir's" other ingredient, sulfanilamide. Nevertheless, fortnight ago St. Louis pathologists working for the Food & Drug Administration definitely declared that the 73 deaths traced to Dr. Massengill's Elixir were due to diethylene glycol, not the sulfanilamide. Last week these results were confirmed by Washington University investigators. Simultaneously, Dr. Massengill began settling the damage suits which...
...Technically the only solvent usable in an elixir is alcohol. On this technicality alone was the Food & Drug Administration legally able to intervene when the "elixir's" death-dealing qualities became evident...