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...started out as just another patent medicine. During a trip to Madagascar, Paris Pharmacist Georges Feuillet, who was already turning out 15 patent drugs, developed furunculosis (boils), and began experimenting with a new remedy. He used a combination of vitamin F* and an organic tin compound containing iodine (called di-iodo-diethyl of tin), which he imagined had a healing effect on skin. Feuillet took some of his capsules, then sent them to a friend, the head of a military hospital, who tried them out on his patients and found them "successful." Soon the Ministry of Health cleared them...
...enough, but the mass-produced capsules contained about three times as much tin compound as the experimental ones. They were made with such primitive methods (pressed in a century-old gadget that looked like a wafer machine) that no two capsules had the same dosage of tin salt and "vitamin F." When the tin began oxidizing, further increasing its poisonous effect, the manufacturers merely noted that the ingredients became darker, and added artificial coloring to the gelatin coating. The ironic climax of the toxicologist's testimony: a slide demonstrating how staphylococci, which can be destroyed by antibiotics, actually proliferated...
...Joey. A mildly anemic version of the full-blooded Broadway musical-with Frank Sinatra supplying a strong jolt of the glamour vitamin (TIME...
...Joey. A mildly anemic version of the full-blooded Broadway musical-with Frank Sinatra supplying a strong jolt of the glamour vitamin (TIME...
...Joey. A mildly anemic version of the full-blooded Broadway musical-with Frank Sinatra supplying a strong jolt of the glamour vitamin (TIME...