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...have a pup, and the pup may grow, theoretically at least, as big as its mother. This week the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. announced that its plant at Hastings, Minn, is turning out a whole litter of "fluorochemicals"-compounds just like ordinary organic chemicals (e.g., acetic acid, ether, etc.), except that they have fluorine in their molecules instead of hydrogen. It should be possible, says Dr. Nelson W. Taylor, manager of Minnesota Mining's fluorochemical department, to make fluorochemical substitutes for all the 100,000-odd organic compounds, from TNT to DDT, that chemists have synthesized...
...dozen years of riding rescue trucks, Eugene W. Fields, battalion chief in Omaha's fire department, tried to guard against every emergency. His trucks became hospitals on wheels with baby-delivery kits, oxygen masks, resuscitators, inhalators, iron lungs, ether masks, surgical gowns and sterile sheets. But Fields, a onetime Navy fire-fighting instructor, still fretted over occasional cases in which he had seen people choke to death while his crews probed blindly for something in the throat...
...besides, these explorers of the ether are just plain jealous. Unlike hams at almost all other major colleges, they don't have the facilities or equipment to maintain a radio club and the usual high-power "gear" that goes with such an organization...
Last week the New York State Department of Mental Hygiene announced that it had developed a gentler way of bringing on the coma which seems to relax sufferers from manic-depressive states. The treatment: intravenous injections of ether.t The ether solution is dripped slowly into the veins (in a technique similar to that used in blood transfusions) for 2½ to 3 hours. The treatment is repeated every day, for ten days to a month...
...Ether treatments can be given to patients whose physical condition prevents the use of shock. There is no danger of fractures or dislocations, no anxiety, and no sign of unpleasant aftereffects, reported the New York researchers. Of 40 depressive patients treated, 21 recovered enough to be released on convalescent care, ten stayed in the hospital with "marked improvement," and nine were unchanged...