Word: methyl
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...until she nearly died. Her diaphragm jerked until it ached and her arms and hands went numb. Doctors at Ripley, her home, and Memphis, where she was hospitalized, sought causes-irritation of the stomach's mucous membranes, affection of the phrenic (diaphragm) nerve, peritonitis, sleeping sickness (encephalitis lethargica), methyl chloride escaping from a mechanical refrigerator. None of these were causative. They made her gulp cold water and hold her breath. That usually stops hiccoughs, but not Vera Stone...
...will be eighth largest U. S. industrial alcohol concern. Yet industrial alcohol, with more than 400 separate uses, from the ethylene of the obstetrician to the embalming fluid of the undertaker, is one of the necessities of modern existence. Into each life some industrial alcohol must fall. Ethyl, Methyl, Amyl. There are three general kinds of alcohol-ethyl, methyl and amyl. Ethyl alcohol is grain alcohol, and may be used socially (as in cocktails) as well as industrially. Methyl alcohol is wood alcohol, made by distillation of the gases which escape from burning wood. Unlike ethyl, methyl is immediately poisonous...
...York State Legislature this year refused to pass a prohibition enforcement act. Last week it did, however, enact a law to protect its citizens from the ravages of wood (methyl) alcohol. A 'legger selling this poison as a beverage will go to jail for one year the first time, for two to five years thereafter. Now to stay within the State law, New York 'leggers must deal strictly in the kind of alcohol (ethyl) prohibited...
...road tar is a morsel which children like to chew. Tar contains dirt, of course, and poisons with terrific names like creosote, benzene, cyclohexane, anthracene, dianthracene, toluene, pyridine, amylene, methyl cyanide, carbon bisulphide. Tar-chewing children should be warned by the disaster which overtook a man tarring an Ohio road. As a case of industrial toxicology, the American Medical Association considered it important enough to publish in its Journal...
...course not. Why should they tear it down? Well, the inside. Didya see the red all over the snow? Thought it was a murder for a while. But Al says it's methyl orange. Butter-coloring. Guess that's what they use here...