Monthly Consular and Trade Reports Volume 305-309 (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...it would be impossible for the glass blower to compete with a simple and cheap process of drawing out the glass mechanically. Consul-General Guenther, of Frankfort, writes that a Spanish professor, has made the discovery that the sunflower yields a febrifuge that can be used as a substitute for quinine. Mr. Guenther writes: "Cosmos" calls attention to the fact that more than ten years ago Moncorvo reported to the therapeutical society of Paris with reference to the same subject. Accordingly the sunflower should not only by its growing exert a great fever-dispelling effect but also yield a product which is used advantageously in malarial fever. The common sunflower is originally an American plant. Its original home is stated by botanists to be Peru and Mexico. The Russian peasantry seem to be convinced that the plant possesses properties against fever, and fever patients sleep upon a bed made of sunflower leaves and also cover themselves with them. This use has recently induced a Russian physician to experiment with a coloring matter prepared from sunflower leaves, and it is stated that he had good results with it in malarial-fever cases. Moncorvo has also had good results with the coloring matter and with alcoholic extracts of the flowers and leaves. With 100 children from one month to twelve years old he has, in the majority of cases, effected as speedy a cure as otherwise with quinine. A solder for aluminum has been invented, says Consul Atwell, of Roubaix, by Fernand Hecht, a mechanic of that city. With a soldering iron he can join together two pieces of the metal or join aluminum to copper, brass, or iron. The invention is simple, no acids or salts being used. Mr. Hecht exhibited his process satisfactorily before the professors of chemistry of...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...it would be impossible for the glass blower to compete with a simple and cheap process of drawing out the glass mechanically. Consul-General Guenther, of Frankfort, writes that a Spanish professor, has made the discovery that the sunflower yields a febrifuge that can be used as a substitute for quinine. Mr. Guenther writes: "Cosmos" calls attention to the fact that more than ten years ago Moncorvo reported to the therapeutical society of Paris with reference to the same subject. Accordingly the sunflower should not only by its growing exert a great fever-dispelling effect but also yield a product which is used advantageously in malarial fever. The common sunflower is originally an American plant. Its original home is stated by botanists to be Peru and Mexico. The Russian peasantry seem to be convinced that the plant possesses properties against fever, and fever patients sleep upon a bed made of sunflower leaves and also cover themselves with them. This use has recently induced a Russian physician to experiment with a coloring matter prepared from sunflower leaves, and it is stated that he had good results with it in malarial-fever cases. Moncorvo has also had good results with the coloring matter and with alcoholic extracts of the flowers and leaves. With 100 children from one month to twelve years old he has, in the majority of cases, effected as speedy a cure as otherwise with quinine. A solder for aluminum has been invented, says Consul Atwell, of Roubaix, by Fernand Hecht, a mechanic of that city. With a soldering iron he can join together two pieces of the metal or join aluminum to copper, brass, or iron. The invention is simple, no acids or salts being used. Mr. Hecht exhibited his process satisfactorily before the professors of chemistry of...

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United States

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March 2012

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March 2012

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246 x 189 x 23mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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446

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978-1-130-32443-3

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9781130324433

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1-130-32443-5



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