Word: menthol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. William H. Luden, 90, whose modest homemade candymaking boomed into big business when, in 1900, he mixed a menthol formula into his candy and made the first menthol cough drop (he sold out 27 years later for $6,500,000); of a heart attack; in Atlantic City...
Several Hollywood experts wanted the world to know who is responsible for all that glamor. For instance, when Ingrid Bergman first came to Hollywood, she had to use an onion to bring on the tears. With the help of the make-up men, she had learned to use a menthol inhaler. One technician recalled that he had successfully taped back one of Alan Ladd's ears (the other one is all right). Another had taped both of Frank Sinatra's ears to minimize his "handle-cup appearance...
...doctors, who have argued loudly about the subject for more than 20 years, have tried a vast variety of applications, including tannic acid (a component of tea), silver nitrate, hormone ointment, triple aniline dyes, sulphur water, cold water, ice, and a concoction of paraffin wax, sulfanilamide, menthol, camphor, vaseline and cod liver oil, the whole topped off by oil of eucalyptus to kill the smell...
Arts & Crafts. In Hollywood, tragediennes started considering retirement: war had produced a shortage of menthol spray, which had produced tears. In the same town, Producing Artists, Inc. devised the first invisible movie title-just a long, admiring whistle on a sound track...
...treatment is a refinement of a method used before World War I but largely neglected since. It consists simply in spraying the burned areas with a melted mixture of paraffin wax, vaseline, cod-liver oil and sulfanilamide (plus traces of camphor, menthol and eucalyptus oil). This wax film is gently washed off the burn with warm water and renewed daily. The burn is not cleaned before spraying, although it may be dusted with sulfa powders; nor is it bandaged afterward. The patient is also given the plasma transfusions and high protein diet common to other forms of burn therapy...