Mercury is a metal, yet it has some weird physical properties, including being a liquid at room temperature.

FRANKLIN COUNTY – Inside his office just off Mt. Vernon’s town square, attorney B.F. Hicks lays a map out on his desk. At ...

THE present book by one of the earliest workers in the subject treated in it promises to become a standard work. In some 190 pages it gives an account of the fundamental theorems dealing with almost ...

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When acetazolamide, an agent used to treat hyperkalemic periodic paralysis, was inadvertently found to relieve a patient with the hypokalemic variety, he and another patient were observed to compare ...

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