Word: fluidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enzymes are colloids. White clay (kaolin) filters absorb certain kinds of colloids, alumina filters certain other kinds. Enzymes, which pass through both alumina and clay filters, have a third set of characteristics. By shrewd use of colloidal physics and chemistry Professor Willstatter segregated the three important enzymes of pancreatic fluid-lipase which acts on fats, amylase which acts on carbohydrates, trypsin which acts on proteins...
Almost all that physicians could do for St. Louis sufferers was to isolate them, see that they got careful nursing, warn their relatives not to confuse the disease with infantile paralysis or waste time and money on "cures." Lumbar punctures (to drain spinal fluid), obligatory for the first few days, gave the only relief. Various symptoms must be treated individually as they arise. Some drugs-sodium salicylate, atropine, pheno-barbital-have been helpful in scattered cases in the past...
...Parry, have been unable to find substitute accelerators as good as the smelly ones. On the other hand they found that zinc carbonate added during the manufacturing process reduced smells to a minimum, and very simply. More complicated and costly is the purification of the latex (the original rubber fluid tapped from the trees) by digestion with dilute caustic, centrifuging, creaming, dialysis, or ultrafiltration...
...prove an insistent thorn in the side of the University, because of the great number of minors concentrated within these walls. Officials and others will use the certainty that the young are to be exposed to the evil influence as an argument against the introduction of the golden fluid. The obvious asininity of such arguments and of the clause in the law which gives them effect, is not in question. Since the law does exist, some way around it must be found; this could be taken care of by such an expedient as the issuance from University Hall of cards...
Stone, bough over bough, lamps fluid in water...