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...discovery was an accident. Copenhagen's Dr. Erik Jacobsen, 45, likes to try out new drugs on himself before giving them to his patients. One night before going to a dinner party he swallowed a couple of pills made of tetraethyl-thiuram-disulfide; they were supposed to be good for intestinal worms. To his surprise, Dr. Jacobsen found that any form of alcohol revolted him. When he sipped even a small glass of beer, his face got red, his heart started to pound and he had trouble getting his breath...
Chemists have even found a potent new defense against the Japanese beetle. This is a helpful chemical called tetramethyl-thiuram disulphide, which, dusted on a favorite beetle plant or on the beetle itself, permanently kills the beetle's appetite, even for undusted plants. The investigators do not yet know the reason why, but they have noticed that the chemical partly paralyzes a beetle's forelegs and mouth...
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