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was described as the unfailing remedy for laziness and a drowsy, tired, sleepy feeling. For indigestion, dizziness, sick headache, numbness, or chills, kidney or bladder troubles, weakness, stimulates and purifies the blood." The so-called remedy was found to consist of small amounts of magnesium sulfate (Epsom salts), iron chloride, quinine sulfate and water. At least such a mixture should make the taker feel different. While we are on the subject, mention should be made of the case where a product composed of the ground, sterile branches of Field Horsetail (Equisetum arvense) was labeled as a relief for diabetes and anemia. This so-called "photo-synthetic tea" is supposed to exert its curative action by making the sugar normal and the blood red.
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James Woodhouse and the Synthesis of Ammonia.--JAMES WOODHOUSE (1770--1809) was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania-in both arts (1787) and medicine (I792). He was elected professor of chemistry in the medical school of the University, when Joseph Priestley declined that honor in I795, and
of the atmosphere for periods as great as 7 days. At the end of that time, the volume had decreased to 2 9 cc., and 46.27 per cent. of the alcohol and 6.6 per cent. of the iodine initially present had been lost. The iodine concentration in the residual liquid was considerably greater than the iodine