Word: formalin
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...made a formal call last week on stony old Prime Minister Malan. He walked across the lawn of Malan's Cape Town residence and reverently laid a treasure at the Prime Minister's feet. It was a bony, clumsy-looking fish about 5 ft. long, smelling of Formalin and incipient putrefaction. The Prime Minister looked at it dubiously. He is a former dominie of the Dutch Reformed Church, which does not believe in evolution...
...Formalin for Posterity. About two weeks ago, Dr. Smith got a cablegram from Captain Eric Hunt, former British naval officer, amateur zoologist, and master of a small, coastal-trading vessel. A coelacanth had been caught, said Hunt, in the Mozambique Channel near Madagascar. Dr. Smith had better come quick, before it turned to mush like the other...
...nearly ten years the burned and battered body of an unidentified, pajama-clad young woman lay in a tank of Formalin in Sydney University's Pathological Museum. When the streetcars rumbled past, she bobbed gently...
...Babcock forbids the use of formalin, carbolic acid or lysol in dressing wounds because they retard healing. He recommends weak wet dressings of bichloride of mercury or iodine, bromine (for fetid wounds), and aluminum acetate (for raw skin...
...Milwaukee also was Manhattan's Dr. Maurice Brodie, who stated that none of the 8,000 children given his vaccine [virus killed with formalin] last summer had contracted infantile paralysis. He also stated that 8,000 trials were too few to prove the value of his vaccine...