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...week Dr. Gordon M. Kline of the U. S. Bureau of Standards told the American Chemical Society that aviation's fire hazard could be conquered by a new kind of airplane "dope" which is noncombustible even when covered with burning gasoline. Content of the new "dope": cellulose acetate, boric acid, borax. Significance: possible revival of fabric instead of all-metal construction...
...find out why until they read about it in the newspapers. All three babies had been suffering from dehydration, were unable to take water by mouth because of vomiting. Subcutaneous injections of about a tumblerful of saline solution were prescribed. By mistake, the nurse administered a 2% boric acid solution. In six hours the three babies had boric acid intoxication. They died of acute gastro enteritis and nephritis. Not until the New York Medical Examiner's office received the death reports were the facts made public. The hospital withheld the nurse's name, said that she had four...
...most successful professional treatments for ringworm include these: opening any blisters and applying cool wet dressings of diluted aluminum acetate liquor or of saturated boric acid; painting daily with a strong solution of permanganate of potash, tincture of iodine, or mercurochrome; anointing with a salve of salicylic and benzoic acids, of ammoniated mercury, or of chrysarobin; exposing to X-rays; soaking in gasoline (six or eight seconds). Combinations of the above may be dangerous...
...formation of his "Poison Squad," twelve young men from his staff who at his command ate only adulterated foods. Their sufferings he reported with dramatic detail. The "Poison Squad" won him general public support. As a result unscrupulous manufacturers must be skillfully stealthy to put into their products boric acid, borax, salicylic acid, salicylates, sulphurous acid, sulphites, benzoic acid, benzoates (except traces), formaldehyde, copper sulphate, saltpeter...
Doctors came running from consulting rooms, halted in horror. The 40 children, writhing in agony, their eyes burnt black, were blinded for life. The ignorant orderlies had filled the eye-sprays not with boric acid solution, but with a concentrated solution of silver nitrate kept for the treatment of infectious eye diseases...