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...believe that potable mercury destroys spirochetes more effectively than mercury injections. Reasoning by analogy, they ask pharmacologists to produce a potable bismuth like the drink Professor Hanzlik announced. In his potion, which 200 San Franciscans have found harmless, which 40 San Francisco syphilitics have found beneficial, the solution is sodium bismuthate; the solvent, a mixture of propylene glycol and a new substance called tri-iso-propanolamine...
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...
...Part of the 'racket'... is to concoct and patent one or more solutions. . . . None of these solutions can be considered useful. Ordinary tap water or physiologic solution of sodium chloride at body temperature is probably more satisfactory...
...week succinctly set forth by the inventor, Physiologist Maurice B. Visscher of the University of Illinois College of Medicine. Said Professor Visscher: "Taken from the patient during the last stages of pregnancy, when she has stored UP a healthy surplus of rich blood, the reserve blood is treated with sodium citrate to prevent clotting and preserved by electric refrigeration for possible use at any time before, during or after childbirth The principal advantage of the banked blood method obviously is one of speed in supplying immediate transfusions without the sometimes fatal delay of searching for a professional or other donor...
...found similar mixtures of arsenic and fluoride in baking soda two years ago. Director Geiger set out to investigate the cases of 30 San Franciscans who had died of acute gastritis or kidney ailments within the fortnight. The puzzle was only partly solved when a barrel of pure sodium fluoride was found among the soda barrels in Rosenthal's store. As excitement reached fever pitch, the city toxicologist announced that Albert Perry and daughter had died of natural causes after all and a restaurant dishwasher swallowed a spoonful of soda which had not come from Rosenthal's, died...