Word: pectin
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...Pectin...
...ARTICLE CAPTIONED "AN APPLE A DAY" WHICH APPEARED IN TIME, FEB. 28 REPORTING RESEARCH ON THE BACTERICIDAL ACTION OF PECTIN GAVE THE FALSE IMPRESSION THAT THE CREDIT FOR THIS WORK SHOULD BE GIVEN TO ME ALONE...
...could not prove that pectin kills bacteria in the bowels and in that way stops intestinal ailments. But, being everlastingly inquisitive. Dr. Edith Haynes of the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, a home economics student who became a bacteriologist in order to learn what happened in her pots, continued to experiment, found that sores kept sopping wet with a water solution of pectin* healed with extraordinary speed...
...case which made her sure that pectin cures wounds was dramatic enough...
Charles Archibald Tompkins, a child specialist who had used pectin for infantile diarrhea, got permission to apply Miss Haynes's pectin solution to the child's raw flesh. The child recovered in a few weeks, regaining entire use of his foot. Said Miss Haynes last week: "The pectin solution acts not only as a killer of organisms and bacteria, but stimulates the growth of tissue. It also has been successfully used on varicose ulcers...