Word: hexylresorcinol
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Physiologist John Raymond Murlin of the University of Rochester announced that he and assistants have just perfected a compound of insulin and hexylresorcinol which may be swallowed as a tablet. It is effective because the hexylresorcinol neutralizes pepsin and acid, and emulsifies fat. Thus there remains nothing to impede insulin's absorption by the diabetic's sugar-laden body...
...with poisons-salts, acids, fats, with blue canisters of strange mineral, with bottles of green, fatal syrup. They sought that latter-day elixir, a fluid deadly to germs, harmless to man, a perfect antiseptic. Last week, came the announce- ment that they had found and tested such a germicide-hexylresorcinol, 50 times as powerful as carbolic acid...
...acid) certain "fatty" acids were linked. The result was, at first, both an excellent antiseptic and a deadly poison. As the molecular proportion was changed, the antiseptic properties increased, the poisonous effect diminished. At last, with great difficulty, six atomical groups of the acids were united with the resorcinol, hexylresorcinol formed...
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