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Approach to Cortin. Dr. Harold Lawrence Mason and his associates at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota are trying to isolate, determine the chemical structure of, and eventually synthesize the potent hormone cortin, secreted by the suprarenal glands. Cortin maintains the potassium, sodium and urea balance of the blood; without it man develops Addison's disease and dies. Last week the Mayo researchers announced isolation of a pure crystalline substance which seems to be a close cousin of cortin. The crystal molecule contains 21 atoms of carbon, 28 of hydrogen, five of oxygen. It seems to have the same effect...
Although it is the most abundant metal in the earth's crust, aluminum was not isolated until a Dane named Oersted did so in 1825, by heating the chloride with potassium. Napoleon Ill's chemist, Deville, substituted sodium for potassium, got the price of aluminum down to $34, then...
...perfusion pump analogous to the artificial heart which Charles Augustus Lindbergh designed for his admiring friend Dr. Alexis Carrel. To his pump Dr. Wilson hitched rabbit kidney after rabbit kidney, and through them perfused artificial blood composed of salt water, red corpuscles from beef blood and oxygen. Upon adding potassium cyanide, which displaces oxygen, Dr. Wilson through his microscope could see oxygen-starved mitochondria crumble while cells of the kidneys, and finally the entire kidneys died...
...Tories. It is unkind for William Carlos Williams to criticize him as follows: "I'd advise him rather to take up arboriculture, unless he is so extraordinarily devoted to writing at its most difficult that even newspaper reporting doesn't attract him. Poetry is worse than cyanide of potassium to a young man unless he wants to die that...
...hanged. Second was Paul Voigemast, 24, a laborer convicted of raping and murdering a middle-aged schoolteacher. Thoughtful Paul Voigemast reserved decision, entered into a long correspondence with the faculty of Dorpat University on the subject of fast-working, pleasant poisons. Finally Paul Voigemast chose a cup of diluted potassium cyanide. Last week he was led to the death chamber, offered the cup. His hand took it steadily. Without expression, he drained it, shuddered, took in one long hissing breath, fell down dead, all within the required five minutes...