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Digestive Acids. Too much acid in the digestive tract causes an anemia resembling pernicious anemia but not so difficult to treat.?Battle Creek's W. N. Boldyreff...
Thursday. A crowd stood waiting in front of No. 10 Downing St., official town residence for Britain's Prime Ministers, where Ramsay MacDonald was busily conferring with acid-tongued Philip Snowden, financial genius of the Labor party, and James Henry Thomas, General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, over final Cabinet appointments...
What the deadly fumes were composed of was only guessed. Apparently it was a mixture. The coroner had the blood of several victims examined and found bromine and hydrocyanic acid (both deadly). Others hazarded that there were quantities of carbon monoxide in the gas. The fact that many, not apparently suffering at first, later succumbed, led to the supposition that nitrogen dioxide (brown gas like bromine) was one of the poisons...
Body cells affected by tuberculosis bacilli contain a certain fatty acid. The Sterling laboratory at Yale has been isolating that acid and the Rockefeller Institute has been experimenting with it. Dr. Sabin, with fingers strong but gentle, has been injecting the acid into laboratory animals. She has found that it induces reactions similar to tuberculosis and may be the substance which really causes tubercles to grow. If so, a specific treatment may be evolved...
...loaf of bread baked and ready for eating. Housewives require ten hours for bread making; commercial bakers take two hours. Professor Dedrick's 45-minute powder is a vesiculant, exciting the formation of carbon dioxide, as does yeast alone, baking powders and the mixture of hydrochloric acid and baking soda. He derives his powder from wheat grains. Shortly he will offer it to the baking trade...