Senior Toxicologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Published a Sixty-Page Review on Fluoride Poisoning
In 1933, Dr. Lloyd DeEds, senior toxicologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and lecturer in pharmacology at Stanford University, published a sixty-page review on fluoride poisoning. He wrote, “The possibility of fluorine hazard should . . . be recognized in industry where this element is dealt with or where it is discharged into the air as an apparently worthless by-product.” Vegetation and livestock near aluminum ...
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 ...
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 ...
