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...Public Health Service last week announced the nature of the poison dn the Jamaica ginger which last spring paralyzed hundreds of tipplers in all parts of the country (TIME, March 24). The poison appears to resemble a phosphoric acid ester of tricresol. It numbs and paralyzes the joints of the limbs, particularly the joints of fingers and toes...
...Health Service and the Prohibition Bureau traced the poisonous Jamaica ginger (colloquially called "ginger jake," "jakey") from the consumers to distributors in Cincinnati and Johnson City, Tenn., then to the Manhattan and Boston manufacturers, who were indicted for violation of the Prohibition Amendment. The inclusion of the phosphoric acid ester of tricresol in the Jamaica ginger was an accident of careless manufacture...
...Numerals--G. N. Barrie, B. E. Ester, E. T. Floathe...
...story was told of the retreat founded by Dr. Victor G. Heiser. In a commandeered Government vessel, he went from port to port, herded the wretches on board, took them to Culion. There they led normal lives, received the expensive treatment of ethyl ester. Their children were born "clean...
...These ethyl ester preparations, containing the active principles of chaulmoogra oil, are injected intramuscularly and intravenously. The injections; usually made once a week, give rise to a febrile and local reaction, and under the microscope it is seen that the lepa bacilli in the tissues break up "and are destroyed. After repeated treatment the lesions completely disappear, and the bacilli are apparently destroyed once...