Word: ethyle
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...possibility of building a new and more efficient type of engine to use the new mixture-a type of engine which, using ordinary gasoline, would soon pound itself to pieces. But lead is a poisonous substance. Tetraethyl lead must be handled with circumspection in production and distribution. The "Ethyl Gasoline," gasoline treated with tetraethyl lead, is far less dangerous, containing only "about 1 part in 1,000" of the tetraethyl lead. There are three possible sources of danger in handling the tetraethyl lead and "Ethyl Gasoline": 1) The hazard in the manufacturing and handling of the concentrated tetraethyl lead. This...
...extracted, are a product of a tree which grows freely in Burma, Bengal and Assam. The oil with a little caustic soda added, yields sodium chaulmoograte, and free chaulmoogric acid is obtained by the addition of hydrochloric acid. If a little alcohol is poured into this chaulmoogric acid ethyl chaulmoograte is obtained, that is, ethyl estermiscible with blood...
...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...
...first public demonstration of the use of ether anæsthesia in surgery was celebrated at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. It was there, on Oct. 16, 1846, that Dr. William T. G. Morton (1819-1868), then a young dentist studying medicine, anæsthetized a patient with ethyl ether, while Dr. Warren, senior surgeon, removed a tumor. Others (Long, 1842, Robinson, Liston, Jackson) have disputed with Morton priority in the use of ether, but the consensus of medical opinion has awarded him the honor...
...whole-wheat grain, egg yolk, beef liver and some other foods, but not in milk, the otherwise perfect food. The absence of Vitamin X affects the reproductive powers of the male, as well as the female rat. This vitamin can be extracted from the wheat embryo with ethyl alcohol and ether and a daily dose of 100 milligrams of the resulting oil cures sterility in the rats...