Word: sodium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...captured them all, have Seattle citizens been so threshed up. Their city (pop. 463,000) is deep in a round of newspaper debates, public meetings, private arguments and brawls. Friendships have been strained, and Christian Scientists have taken counsel with medical doctors-all because of a proposal to put sodium fluoride in Seattle's drinking water...
What About Nymphomania? Pro-fluoride people pointed once more to their statistics. When used properly, they said, sodium fluoride affects nothing but children's teeth. And it does them a world of good, e.g., in Newburgh, N.Y. it has cut cavities among children by 30%. The cost would be negligible (about 10? a month for each householder). No fewer than 194 communities are using fluorides already, and 70 or 80 more are preparing...
...Sodium fluoride will be added to Cambridge's water late this month, Dr. Edward O'Rourke, Commissioner of Public Health, announced yesterday. At the same time a University expert warned the chemical might prove harmful to certain users, but claimed the risk of danger was small...
Smal quantities of sodium fluoride are to be mixed with drinking water. This process is calculated to decrease sharply the dental decay rate of children, and to a lesser extent that of adults...
Died. Henry Drysdale Dakin, 72. London-born research chemist whose specialization in military medicine led to his development (with Dr. Alexis Carrel) of Dakin's solution, a sodium hypochlorite wound antiseptic which saved hundreds of lives in World War I, won him the grateful thanks of France when he was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor; in Scarborough...