Word: thiouracil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pacific Ocean. It set housewives to sealing their windows with adhesive tape, drove office workers out of the upper floors of high buildings, gave some panicky citizens the idea that the city was being subjected to a gas attack. It turned out to be a gas called S-Ethyl-Thiouracil, which had been blown to sea from oil refineries, then blown back in again...
...Thiouracil, used for disturbances of the thyroid gland, may make the legs swell, damage the white blood cells, cause death...
Overweight men & women sometimes take thyroxine* to burn up excess fat and make their figures slimmer and more attractive. Hogs may soon be fed thiouracil, the opposite of thyroxine, to make their figures fatter and more attractive...
...Thiouracil is a synthetic drug which slows metabolism, the rate at which the body burns its fuel-food. Recently Dr. George Van Der Noot and others of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station mixed 0.25% of this biological fire extinguisher in the feed of gilts and barrows (young female and castrated male hogs). The results were cheering to farmers. The slowed-down hogs invested their food in fat instead of burning it up in rooting. For each 100 Ibs. of weight gained, they ate 27.5% less feed than hogs that were deprived of thiouracil...
...Astwood has developed a new medical treatment for patients with enlarged goiters caused by over-active thyroid glands. In nine cases treated, all signs of the disease disappeared after a daily dose of the thiouracil medicine for six months...