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...selling point, each brand's flavoring mixture is a trade secret, but the basis for all flavoring is rum. Only other ingredient cigaret companies reveal is a hygroscopic agent mixed with the tobacco to attract moisture. In most cigarets the hygroscopic agent is glycerin; Philip Morris uses diethylene glycol. The result, it claims, with substantiation from many a doctor, is less irritation to the membranes of the throat...
...treatment for "coccus" infections (streptococcus, gonococcus, meningococcus) and there has been so much to learn about its effects that practically every issue of every medical journal has referred to it. Several months ago, following the deaths of two score Southerners who had taken an "elixir" of sulfanilamide & diethylene glycol (TIME, Dec. 20, et ante), the Journal of the American Medical Association published a survey of sulfanilamide's uses and dangers. But so many new discoveries have occurred that the New England Journal of Medicine had Dr. Maurice A. Schnitker of Harvard's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital make...
...Medical School, decided to manufacture drugs for doctors rather than practice medicine himself. His business, established in Bristol, Tenn., grew until it had $300,000 in assets. Then, two months ago, fatality knocked at its door. A new mixture of a new drug (sulfanilamide) with a new solvent (diethylene glycol), which Dr. Massengill's salesmen sold as Elixir Sulfanilamide-Massengill, was discovered to be killing its users (TIME...
Currently Dr. Massengill is circularizing his customers with a broadside, in which he declares that he did not know that the diethylene glycol part of his "elixir" might be poisonous, that he believes responsibility for the poisonings may be due to his "elixir's" other ingredient, sulfanilamide. Nevertheless, fortnight ago St. Louis pathologists working for the Food & Drug Administration definitely declared that the 73 deaths traced to Dr. Massengill's Elixir were due to diethylene glycol, not the sulfanilamide. Last week these results were confirmed by Washington University investigators. Simultaneously, Dr. Massengill began settling the damage suits which...
...sized factory at Bristol, Tenn., this summer decided to add that drug to his line. Knowing that his Southern customers prefer their medicines in bottles,* he sought something in which to dissolve sulfanilamide, which had hitherto been taken in tablets and intravenous injections only. He decided to use diethylene glycol, a close relative of the alcohol used to keep motorcar radiators from freezing, never before put to this purpose. Whether diethylene glycol is poisonous by itself or in this solution was not made clear last week. The one indisputable fact was that S. E. Massengill Co. made up several...