Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...relatives of the dead-faced pale, pudgy Pharmacist Feuillet, who was on trial for involuntary homicide. Also at issue in the trial: $5,000,000 in claims for damages. On the witness stand, a leading French toxicologist explained that Stalinon's death agent was the organic tin compound, which is well known to be chemically unstable and poisonous. Said the witness: "The tin deposits traveled to the brain and caused edema. The expanding brain tissue pressed against the skull and caused unimaginable pain. When trephination was performed, the brain literally mushroomed out of the head...
...original capsules, tested at the military hospital and by the Ministry, were dangerous 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...
...become blunt when talking about the abuse his subject takes in the average U.S. school. "The mathematical education of most math teachers," says he, "ends in the ninth grade.'' They teach arithmetic as if it involved nothing more than totting up grocery bills or figuring compound interest, completely fail to give their pupils any glimpse into the concepts that lie behind the subject. Last year Fehr took on the job of collaborating with TV Producer Richard Pack of the Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. on a TV show that might whet the mathematical appetites of children around junior high-school...
...think of fuel as something that gives off heat when the carbon in it combines with oxygen from the air. Chemists have wider horizons. A fuel means any combination of substances that reacts chemically with a release of energy. The ingredient that "burns" may be a metal or a compound containing a metal. The "oxydizer" may be oxygen-rich, or it may have no oxygen at all. The test is the yield of propulsive energy, which scientists measure as "specific impulse...