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Antiseptics. The whole philosophy of antiseptics was contained in a few words read by Herbert Clifton Hamilton, pharmacologist of Parke, Davis & Co.: "No one antiseptic will kill all kinds of germs. For example, the tetanus germ, which causes lockjaw, can be put into pure carbolic acid and remain in perfect health. Aniline dyes, which are widely used for cuts and skin injuries, kill only certain germs and leave others, equally dangerous, unscathed...
Glutathione. At the National Institute of Health, Pharmacologist Director Carl Voegtlin & associates observed that an organic sulphur compound, glutathione, present in all living body cells, is concerned with the body's defense against the toxic action of arsenic and certain other poisons. Glutathione occurs in large quantities in cancer cells. It occurred to Professor Voegtlin and Dr. Harold W. Chalkley, an associate, that glutathione might be a contributing cause of cancer. Forthwith they immersed amoebae (single- celled animalcules) in a glutathione solu-tion.* The amoebae reproduced themselves by subdivision (as all cells do) with extraordinary ease, confirming the Voegt...
...medical profession is concerned, that shrewd controversy raised by Howard W. Ambruster, Manhattan importer of crude ergot, and Dr. Henry Hurd Rusby, Columbia University pharmacologist, as to the purity of ergot used obstetrically in the U. S., is ended. The American Medical Association last week published a 10,000-word review of the entire dispute from its beginning in 1927 (when Mr. Ambruster secured a "corner" on Spanish ergot) through the Senate investigation of the Food, Drug & Insecticide Administration last summer (TIME, July 14 et ante).* In passing the report revived its old comment on Dr. Rusby: "His experience...
Fresh evidence suggesting that the beat of the heart is initiated by radioactive elements in the blood was reported by Professor Charles Christian Lieb of Columbia (pharmacologist) from the researches of Dr. Hendrik Zwaardemaker, professor emeritus of physiology at the University of Utrecht, Holland. Professor Zwaardemaker took the hearts out of eels and frogs, pumped through them physiological salt solutions. The hearts beat in vitro half an hour or so, then ceased. Professor Zwaardemaker added small amounts of potassium salt to his solution. The hearts began to beat again. They continued so for 24 hours. Potassium is weakly radioactive. Other...
While five pharmaceutical associations met at Rapid City, S. Dak., last fortnight and tried to dodge the ergot controversy raised by Pharmacologist Henry Hurd Rusby and Drug-Importer Howard W. Ambruster (TIME, April 15), members were vexed to learn that Eastern newspapers had scare-headed an ordinary Federal food-&-drug seizure of 500 cans of ether in Boston, 400 in Providence, R. I. The seizures were similar to those which food-&-drug men constantly make. Ether is made from alcohol and sulphuric acid. Carelessly made it may contain harmful peroxides and aldehydes. Carefully made it may deteriorate with...