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PRESTONE (ethylene glycol) : wash stomach with very dilute potassium permanganate, give caffeine as stimulant, oxygen and artificial respiration if needed...
...chemical engineers know what new products may come from hydrogenation. They had the same problem when they produced chemicals from petroleum gases which had no known use, but which now sell in quantities totaling more than 2 billion Ibs. a year, and go into everything from an antifreeze (ethylene glycol) to cigarettes, aspirin, and synthetic Vitamin Blt More than a third of Carbide's earnings ($104 million in 1951) comes from products and processes that did not even exist in 1939. Among them: the process for making butadiene from alcohol which provided 90% of all U.S. World...
...stake was Philip Morris' chief stock in trade. In 18 years, its sales have shot from $2.6 million to $305 million, largely on the strength of the fact that Philip Morris uses diethylene glycol (instead of glycerin) as a moistening agent. It has persuaded thousands of smokers, in its famous "nose test," that consequently Philip Morris cigarettes are less irritating. As evidence, Philip Morris presented the FTC with testimony from doctors, researchers and others who reported on "scientific" tests as far back as 1934. For every expert brought in by Philip Morris, competitors and U.S. glycerin manufacturers popped...
...prevent colds, Pediatrician Joseph Stokes Jr. and Dr. Tzvee N. Harris used propylene glycol vapor (TIME, Nov. 16, 1942) last winter to spray the air of six wards containing 105 children at the Children's Seashore House in Atlantic City. While the wards were being sprayed, three children came down with colds. While the wards were unsprayed, 79 got colds...
Propylene glycol is harmless to man when swallowed or injected into the veins. It is also harmless to mice who have breathed it for long periods. But medical science is cautious-there was still a remote chance that glycol might accumulate harmfully in the erect human lungs which, unlike those of mice, do not drain themselves. So last June Dr. Robertson began studying the effect of glycol vapor on monkeys imported from the University of Puerto Rico's School of Tropical Medicine. So far, after many months' exposure to the vapor, the monkeys are happy and fatter than...