Word: extraction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dickens' treatment: thyroid extract, which jolts the patient into action for a short time. But his patient is getting sleepier every year...
Although magnesium is plentiful in nature (it occurs in sea water), it is difficult to extract and fabricate, requires a special coating to protect it from corrosion and combustion. Arnold's indictments charged that patents on these processes had been used to set up monopoly control. Named chief co-defendants with Alcoa and I. G. Farbenindustrie were American Magnesium Corp. (half owned by Alcoa), which is the chief U. S. processor of magnesium, and Dow Chemical Co., which in 1927 developed a native American process for extracting the metal from Michigan brine wells...
Lately Sister Mary Jordan Carroll, Professor Fardon and others at the Institutum have been investigating the respiration of cells. From yeast and animal tissue cells they were able to extract an oxidizing agent, which they call biodin, and which stimulates oxygen consumption. After precipitation as a white powder, biodin retains its powers, can be sent back to work to speed up the life fires of injured tissues. Last week, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science convention in Philadelphia, Sister Mary Jordan Carroll demonstrated biodin, with microscope and test tube. Naturally she attracted a good deal of attention...
Attached is an extract from a letter I received lately from England...
...check this experiment, Dr. Steiner made a like preparation from the livers of persons who had died from a variety of diseases other than cancer, injected the extract into 63 mice. No tumors appeared...