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...started out as just another patent medicine. During a trip to Madagascar, Paris Pharmacist Georges Feuillet, who was already turning out 15 patent drugs, developed furunculosis (boils), and began experimenting with a new remedy. He used a combination of vitamin F* and an organic tin compound containing iodine (called di-iodo-diethyl of tin), which he imagined had a healing effect on skin. Feuillet took some of his capsules, then sent them to a friend, the head of a military hospital, who tried them out on his patients and found them "successful." Soon the Ministry of Health cleared them...
...accepted as historical Zweig pronounces completely untrustworthy. Whatever her last words may have been, they were not, says Zweig, an apology for stepping on her executioner's toes. ("An anecdote too good to be true!") Documents in her case, he says, have been further confounded by one Baron Feuillet...
Among those backing the project are: Dr. Roux, head of the Pasteur Institute; Baronne Lajeune, Le Maréchal Foch, Mme. Louis Stern, Joseph Barthélemy, Dr. Alexander Bruno of the Rockefeller Institute and Professor Albert Calmette. Jean Stern, No. 18 Rue Octave Feuillet, Paris, is Treasurer...
...Roman d'un Jeune Homme Pauvre," by Octave Feuillet...
...actor. The hardships which he had to undergo embittered him, and this very bitterness taught him to reflect. These twelve years were of incalculable benefit to Moliere, for in them he thoroughly mastered his profession of writer and comedian. His view was greatly broadened. Whereas other writers like Boileau, Feuillet, Bourget and Dumas fils, treat only of Parisian scenes and characters, Moliere by his extensive travel and wide observation was enabled to portray, with a striking reality, the life and the characters of the provinces. Many of his scenes and characters can be localized in some part of provincial France...