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...other drugs should be used with sulfanilamide, "except sodium bicarbonate. . . . Any preparation which produces a watery stool such as magnesium sulfate [Epsom salts] and other cathartics may aggravate the deleterious effects of sulfanilamide. Hydrochloric acid and coal tar derivatives may act similarly. . . . The colon should be kept free from food residues by a cleansing enema before treatment is started, and a low-residue diet . . . containing few eggs should be given...
Sulphonated castor oil, the sodium alkyl sulphates, and the sodium salts of sulphonated alkyl naphthalenes are "wetting agents." As explained last week in Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Review, wetting agents reduce the surface tension of water (which makes it contract into drops), thus enable it to penetrate and soak water-resistant substances. Wetting agents are now used in laundries, in dyeing and tanning, in medicine (increasing the efficacy of antiseptic solutions), in tooth paste, in metalworking...
...Columbia University bacteriologist who proved that colds and influenza are due to viruses, ruddy, reticent Dr. Alphonse Raymond Dochez, reported in Science that, with the help of Dr. Charles Arthur Slanetz, he has prevented and cured distemper in dogs, cats and ferrets by injections of a new drug-sodium sulfanilyl sulfanilate. This drug, a sulfur derivative like sulfanilamide which cures certain bacterial diseases (due to streptococcus, etc.), appears, according to Drs. Dochez & Slanetz, to be the "first chemical agent to have such definite therapeutic action in an infection due to a filterable virus. The range of its activity in virus...
When Lawrence made sodium radioactive, the prospect arose of administering salt containing radio-sodium, as a saline solution to be swallowed or injected. The radiation dwindles by half every 15 hours and practically dies out in a few days. This was tried on some patients at the University of California hospital, and although the results were inconclusive, Lawrence feels that no such promising line of investigation should be dropped until it has been followed out further. His brother, Dr. John Lawrence of Yale Medical School, is helping him with the biological research and writing reports for medical publications. Another possibility...
...Cryolite was used only in making caustic soda, sodium bicarbonate and alum. But "Salt" presently learned that it formed an excellent flux for manufacturing opaque glass and for coating enamelware, tile and porcelain. Best of all it turned out to be a valuable ingredient for aluminum. Rocketing aluminum sales and war scares lately have boomed the cryolite trade. '"Salt" maintains its monopoly with ease since the mines discovered by the Eskimos at Ivigtut, Greenland, remain the only ones in the world. Because the mining season is necessarily short, "Salt" usually gets but two shipments annually on little Scandinavian freighters...