Word: fluids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came up again last week. Walter Gilbert Campbell, director of the department's regulatory work took it before the Senate Committee on Agriculture & Forestry. He wished to clear the administration of Dr. Henry Kurd Rusby's long repeated charges that it was willfully permitting the importation of rotten ergot, fluid extract of which (says Dr. Rusby) is killing large numbers of women in childbirth (TIME, April...
...physiological action of the extract is not precise, a fault of many drugs of vegetable origin. Their composition is complex and variable. Hence physicians lately have been adopting more controllable products. In obstetrics, pituitary solutions refined from the pituitary glands >of animals are supplanting ergot. But great quantities of fluid extract of ergot are still used. The raw material reaches the U. S. from Russia (and Poland) and Spain (and Portugal...
...Federal officials accused but from manufacturing pharmacists whose good reputation was being impugned by Dean Rusby and Importer Ambruster. The direction of the manufacturers' testimony, endorsed by pharmacologists of Dean Rusby's grade, was to be: 1) that Spanish ergot is commercially better than Russian ergot because more fluid extract can be made from a given amount, 2) that Russian ergot can be and is being made into safe fluid extracts which satisfy the high standard of the U. S. pharmacopoeia, 3) that the ergot "scandal," apart from Dean Rusby's idealistic intervention, is nothing but a commercial fight, nothing...
...undoubtedly the most strategic. Large Kraft-Phenix dairying subsidiary is Southern Dairies, Inc., operating 48 plants between Maryland and Florida-a region not previously served by National Dairy. In addition to this, Kraft-Phenix has a world-wide distribution system which National Dairy can use for its non-fluid products, including sausages from the recently purchased Deerfoot Farms...
...body. It is essential to a woman's health. It gives women their feminine characteristics. Its lack or scant production causes physiological irregularity, often sterility. Women create more of it while they are pregnant than at other times. It becomes available in relatively large quantities in the amniotic fluid and placenta...