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...Boric acid, the old home remedy stand by, got some hard words in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It can be fatal when it gets into a baby's for mula by mistake and, says Dr. E. H. Watson of Ann Arbor, Mich.: "As a lavage to remove pus from the eye, a weak solution of sodium bicarbonate is much more effective." His advice: throw that boric acid out of the medicine cabinet...
...happened again last week. The scene of the tragedy was New London, Conn.'s Lawrence & Memorial Associated Hospitals. This time it was a woman pharmacist, who mistook boric acid for dextrose (the crystals look much alike) in filling some bottles with babies' formulas. Result of a four-day diet of boric acid to 23 babies: four dead, several others sick, the pharmacist in bed with nervous collapse...
...combat athlete's foot (dermatophytosis)-the itch caused by the toe-burrowing fungi dermatophytes which infest locker rooms and swimming pools-there are at least a hundred bland salves and powders on the market. Favorites: boric acid and sulfur powders, salves of salicylic acid and benzoic acid mixed with vaseline; an ether-collodion mixture. These generally clear up the mild, itching cases which annoy millions of people...
Hollywood has bought a band, a comedian (Milton Boric), a skier and skater (Sonja Henic), and turned out a top-notch cluematic vaudevillc. The plot is only a poor excuse for a number of excellent specialties and doesn'd do a very good job of pasting them together, john Payne signs up to take care of a refugee and finds a twenty-one year old Norwegian blonde on his hands. The rest of the story is how girl gets boy away from luscious Lynn Bari; the winner (surprise, surprise!) is Sonja Henic...
Under industry-wide mandatory priorities, which means that no supplier can sell them except to customers who have priority rating, were 14 materials: aluminum, borax (and boric acid),* copper, cork, ferro-tungsten, machine tools, magnesium, nickel, nickel-steel, polyvinyl chloride (for plastics), rubber, synthetic rubber, tungsten high-speed steel, zinc. Pig iron was soon to be added. So were some heavy chemicals-sulfuric acid and possibly ammonia...