Word: sulfurous
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Torrents of rain poured down last week over the steep green mountainsides of St. Lucia, largest of the British-owned Windward Islands in the Caribbean. Old La Soufrière, 4,000 feet high, once an active volcano, now rich in sulfur and hot springs and not to be confused with nearby St. Vincent's La Soufrière, was shrouded in heavy mist. At a time when the island's June-to-October rainy season was past, St. Lucia was drenched, soaked, deluged...
...bedside of a patient stricken with deadly peritonitis. In desperation he fed her a German-made drug, never before used in the U. S. The patient rapidly recovered. Dr. Mellon then plunged into an intensive study of the action of this drug, a combination of benzene, a sulfur compound and naphthalene, called prontosil. He learned that: 1) one of its three ingredients, naphthalene, was medically worthless; 2) sulfanilamide, a cheaper U. S. product, composed of the other two ingredients, would do everything prontosil could do. Last fortnight, together with Dr. Paul Gross and Frank B. Cooper, Pittsburgh Institute of Pathology...
...years later, Dr. (Sc. D.) Williams, chemical director of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, has succeeded in synthesizing the curative substance, which is now called vitamin B2.* Upon advice of the American Medical Association, he re-named the vitamin thiamin because it contains sulfur (Greek theion). The American Chemical Society this spring awarded Dr. Williams its Willard Gibbs (highest) Medal. Science has just published a detailed article by him. "The Chemistry and Biological Significance of Thiamin." And next week Macmillan's will publish Vitamin B1 and its Use in Medicine ($5), which he wrote with Dr. Tom Douglas Spies...
Country people in England (where Dr. Bazett was born and educated) and around Philadelphia (where he teaches) still dose themselves and their children with sulfur & molasses (brimstone & treacle) every spring to thin their blood. In extreme cases they apply bloodsucking leeches. By the medical profession in general, bloodletting is considered even more out-of-date than doses of brimstone & treacle. Yet precisely such venesection, suggested modern Dr. Bazett. might be a helpful prophylactic against the blood torrents of spring...
...tiny high pressure laboratory, Professor Bridgman has produced forms of bismuth, gallium, calcium, strontium, barium, and cesium which have never been seen before. As in the case of red and yellow forms of sulfur that are seen under ordinary pressures, he has made forms of these elements that differ from their usual forms in appearance and in physical properties...