Word: sulfured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allen Trevaskis '42 and Winny White '42 of Kirkland House were confidently at work yesterday fixing a newly acquired refrigerator which had gone suddenly on the blink, when the smell of sulfur began to fill the room. Before a leak of poisonous sulfur dioxide from the icebox was suspected, the two were half asphixiated...
...last eight years, chemists have concocted 1,200 sulfur-bearing drugs. But only five, including sulfanilamide and sulfadiazine, can be used in the human body. The other three: ¶ Sulfapyridine, a specific for pneumonia. In the last year, this drug, which is used together with serums, reduced the pneumonia deaths in the U. S. by half. > Sulfathiazole, specific for dread staphylococcic infections...
...prefix meaning a compound of sulfur and ammonia. Sulfa is medical shorthand for sul-fonatnide...
...Byzantine Empire held off the Saracens for generations with Greek fire -a mixture of pitch, sulfur, quicklime and naphtha squirted from siphon-like devices. Gunpowder outmoded Greek fire in the 14th Century, and the steel warships of the 19th Century outmoded the red-hot cannonballs which often ignited wooden frigates...
...Some 90 to 100% of the troops have scabies, which, when scratched, often result in leg ulcers. Treatment: delousing, bathing, rubbing the affected parts with sulfur preparations...