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OLIN MATHIESON CHEMICAL Corp., fifth biggest in the U.S. (1954 sales: $450 million), will soon get into the sodium phosphate (used in detergents) field if a merger deal works out. Olin is dickering to take over phosphatemaker Blockson Chemical Co. (1954 sales: $29 million), possibly by acquiring a controlling interest in 1,000,000 shares (of a total 1,500,000 outstanding) of Blockson stock owned by President Louis Block and his family...
...harm than good; Dr. Edward Kessler of Albany, N.Y. has seen three patients in one year who were petrifying themselves by clogging their kidneys with excess calcium. Other doctors have reported seven deaths. The danger to life increases with the duration and degree of the self-medication, especially with sodium bicarbonate and its proprietary relatives...
...bring about this painless state, or analgesia, which involves the entire body,* Dr. Artusio puts patients through all the usual sequence of anesthetics (barbiturates, thiopental sodium, nitrous oxide, oxygen, ether) until they lose consciousness. Then he gives more oxygen and less ether, so that they edge back across the threshold into consciousness, and holds them at this level. Edna's case, filmed in color by E. R. Squibb & Sons for hospitals and professional groups, was typical of 120 mitral valve repairs on which Drs. Glenn and Artusio have worked-enough, they feel, to establish that ether analgesia is just...
...lies in acute starvation, as distinguished from long-range underfeeding. If Dubos takes well-fed mice, but omits their feedings for 30 hours (not long enough to cause obvious physical distress), they become suddenly susceptible to artificial infections, which prove rapidly fatal. Some chemicals also have this effect-notably sodium citrate. (By contrast chronically undernourished mice can maintain a normal level of resistance...
...fastest-changing component, says Dr. Aebersold, is water. It forms about 70% of the body, and about half the water molecules are replaced every eight days. Other fleeting elements are carbon, sodium and potassium. The calcium and phosphorus in bones and teeth stay put longer, but even they are not permanent. "Bones are quite dynamic." says Dr. Aebersold. The little crystals in bones are continually dissolving and reforming. In the process, some of the atoms are lost...