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...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...
...room, the King was injected with an anesthetic (probably sodium pentothal) by Anesthetist Robert Machray. He was wheeled to the operating room and, if Surgeon Price Thomas followed his customary procedure, laid out three-quarters prone, his left side propped up slightly with pillows...
Died. Robert Walker, 32, boyish cinemactor (Strangers on a Train; See Here, Private Hargrove), at the peak of a successful screen comeback after an emotional crackup and widely publicized alcoholic escapades; of respiratory failure, after a doctor had given him a dose of sodium amytal to quiet an emotional upset; in Hollywood. Born in Salt Lake City (where his father edited the Deseret News), Walker went off to theatrical school in New York, there met Phyllis Isley, married her, lived in artistic poverty while appearing in Greenwich Village theatricals. In 1943, both got big breaks in Hollywood-he in Bataan...