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...roll of typed paper at the arthritis specialists. The roll, said he, was 31 ft. long. All that yardage was needed to list the patent medicines sold over U. S. drugstore counters for the cure of arthritis. They included analgesics like aspirin, local balms like antiphlogistine, blood builders like ferric ammonium citrate. Some of their names: Joyzone Pain Analgesic, Clear Water Joint Ease, Rising Mist, Wizard Balm, U-Rub-It, Rivet Cold Breaker, Pain Knocker, Oil-O-Youth, Root-Tea-Na-Salve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ridicule v. Vice | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...Antidote. Rats were poisoned by carbon monoxide to the point of cyanosis and respiratory convulsions. When hexahydroxyferric chloride (a reaction product of ferric chloride and hydrogen peroxide) was injected into their bellies, 75% recovered.-Sam & Joseph Seifter of University of Oklahoma's School of Medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Convening Chemists | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...This difficulty gives value to a new fluid which Dr. Arthur Dehon Little, Boston chemist, discovered in Germany and reported last week. "NS fluid" is the cryptic name of the substance. Basically it is a mixture of metallic chlorides-sodium chloride (table salt), anhydrous aluminum chloride and ferric chloride. The mixture turns to liquid at 302° F. and flows as freely as water. At 1,500° F. it is still liquid. Apart from its high heat capacity, "NS fluid" does not corrode iron or other ordinary metals and does not decompose while in a closed heating system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: NS Fluid | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

...caustic which Dr. Cutler prefers is a "modified Carnoy's solution": absolute alcohol 6 c. c., chloroform 3 c. c., glacial acetic acid i c.c., ferric chloride 1 gm. The solution practically "tans" tissues it comes in contact with. Dr. Cutler uses it to toughen cysts which he must scoop out of brains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Caustic Surgery | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

...Some Dow products: calcium chloride, used for refrigeration; diethylaniline, used in the dye industry; industrial chloroform, used by dry-cleaners and for medicinal purposes; ethyl chloride, used in antiknock gasoline and to make rubber more flexible; ferric chloride, used in photoengraving; phenol, used in making synthetic resins like Bakelite; acetic anhydride, used in the rayon industry; sodium sulphide, used in tanning; epsom salt; acetyl salicylic acid (aspirin). It also manufactures insecticides, aromatic chemicals, magnesium metal, alloys. ?Chemical Markets Medal awarded by Chemical Markets magazine; Perkin Medal, by Society of Chemical Industry, American Chemical Society, Societe de Chimie Industrielle, American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Midland, Mich. | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

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