Discovery and Use
The time lag between discovery and use is being ever shortened. It was 300 years between the discovery and preparation of ether and its use in 1842 as an anaesthetic by Dr. Long of Georgia. Sixteen years elapsed between the Preparation of chloroform by the chemist Liebig and the discovery of its anaesthetic action by Dr. Simpson in 1847. Cocaine was first isolated in 1860, but it was 20 years before its value for local anaesthesia was recognised. To-day the co-operation between chemistry and t™medicine is much closer, and much less time elapses between a discovery and its utilisation. (Professor F. G. Soper in the Winter Course series "Chemistry and Medicine," 4YA, June 25.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 55, 12 July 1940, Page 8
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117Discovery and Use New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 55, 12 July 1940, Page 8
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