Fumigation Method for Sacked Cotton Seed

Fumigation of Baled Cotton with Hydrocyanic Acid for The

Cotton Seed Asthma

To the Editor, Tnti Indian Mhdicat, Gazette. Sik,?I shall be much obliged if readers of your journal will suggest the best lines of treatment for the following case:? A Hindu male, aged 36 years, shopkeeper by profession, has been the subject of asthmatic fits since lie was 9 years of age. The attack is brought on by the inhalation of cotton seeds, and is relieved by injections of liquor adrena...

A Novel Method for Determination of Cyclanilide and Its Metabolite Residues in Cotton Seed Oil

A simple, sensitive and inexpensive method was developed using solid-phase extraction, together with high performance liquid chromatographic method with uv detection for determination of cyclanilide and its metabolite (2, 4 dichloroaniline) residues. The evaluated parameters include the extracts by gel permeation chromatography (clean-up module GPC) on bio beads S-X3 polystyrene gel using a mix...

JAMA’s editor sacked

Editor—The sacking of Lundberg as JAMA’s editor is a very sad event for editorial freedom in general and for medical journals world wide in particular. This disgraceful incident has shown that neither size nor success gives any guarantee for editorial freedom— not even the two combined. The fight for integrity must go on continuously in every editorial office every day. Lundberg has been an exa...

Cotton Seed Aqueous Extract a Potent Allergen

The extract used in an intradermal test (in the routine test for allergy) has caused deaths (Harris and Shure, 1950; Current Topics, 1951). The need for the test is doubted, as the oil obtained from the seed and used in shortening, salad oils, etc., does not contain the watersoluble protein which is the allergen. The danger, however, can be eliminated by performing a scratch test before the int...