Word: extract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a Chicago reporter of the United Press discovered a Mrs. Andrew Nelson, wife of a workless carpenter and mother of six, dying of dread Addison's disease. Her physician, Dr. Richard Torpin, remarked that extract of adrenal cortex might prolong her life. But the extract was scarce, impossible to get. A small news item resulted...
Carl D. Groat, United Press news director in Manhattan, saw the despatch. As hardbitten newsmen often do, he simultaneously winced at the private tragedy and snapped at the human interest story. He ordered United Press men to hunt for a supply of cortical extract among the physicians of their community. Roscoe Snipes, U. P. bureau manager at Buffalo, recalled Professor Hartman's paper before the chemists, persuaded him through a reporter?after Dr. Torpin had sent a personal request from Chicago?to send a supply...
...dementia praecox. Some cases might be due, surmised Professor Roy Graham Hoskins of Harvard, to thyroid irregularities. He went to the State Hospital at Worcester, Mass, and with the help of F. H. Sleeper selected 18 dementia praecox patients who probably had poor thyroids. They fed these patients thyroid extract, were not surprised to find 14, or 88%, decidedly improved, five of them sufficiently so to be released and trusted in the general community...
...make their new accusations. They discovered that many a manufacturer of paints, varnishes, lacquers and disinfectants sells his products to customers who have nothing to paint or varnish, nothing to disinfect. By a process of distillation these bootlegging consumers remove the denaturant elements from the goods they purchase, extract drinkable ethanol (grain alcohol). Included in the charges were manufacturers of industrial alcohol as well as those manufacturers who use the alcohol as a solvent. U. S. Industrial Alcohol Co., biggest producer in the U. S.,and Glidden Co., Cleveland's prolific paint and varnish makers, were among those indicted...
From a certain common kind of Brittany seaweed, Frank Jay Gould an nounced that he soon expected to be able to extract gold...