Dr. Gerald Cox Addresses the American Society of Biological Chemist on ‘Mottled Teeth’ Investigation. Was it Aluminum or Fluoride?
Toxic effects have been attributed to aluminum compounds since they came in use e. g. as ingredients in baking powders (1). During the 1920´s aluminum cooking utensils too were suspected of posing a health hazard (2) and ALCOA installed a "Utensil Fellowship" at Mellon Institute (3) to investigate the problem. When the occurrence of "mottled teeth" was observed among the inhabitants of a small bauxite mining community, Bauxite, Arkansas, chemists ...
Porton Down Lab is Founded: The Chemical and Germ Warfare Lab that Used Animals and Humans as Lab Rats
On 7 March 1916, Sergeant Major Dobbs of the Royal Engineers, the first person to carry out defense operations at the site, reported for duty at Porton Down. Since then, the work at Porton Down has developed and evolved, with the Defense Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) now present on the 7000 acres of defence-owned property. (The Mirror) The 7,000 acre site, near Salisbury, is one ...
Flouride is First Patented as an Insecticide as an “Improved Composition or Material for Destroying Insects”
Flouride first patented as insecticide: Charles Henry HIGBEE, of New York City, N.Y., Manager of Manufacturing Company: "An improved composition or material for destroying insects", British Patent GB 8236; filed April 18, 1896; pat. May 23, 1896. ("The compounds of fluorine which I employ for the purpose of destroying insects, are certain soluble ones, viz.: sodium fluoride, ferric fluoride, the silico-fluorides of the same bases, hydro-fluo-silicic acid, and the boro-fluo-silicates") From the "Introduction" to Chapter 7, "Fluorine-containing insecticides", by ...
