Sabattus High School - Yearbook (Sabattus, ME)

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CHEMIQTS Sir Humphrey Davey C1778 18291 was the most brilllant of Eng li h investlgators Hu early appreciated the v lue of the atomic th ory and adopted it He discovered the anesthetic propertles of nltrous oxide He made a very extended study of the effect of pas sing an electrlc ourr nt through substances and dlscover d by thls m ans s veral new elem nts, notably sodium and potasslum Davey CX3ldlHed the chemical nature of acids as compounds of hydrog n, new view of that t1me He pronounced chlorlne to be an element H 1 famed as the inventor of th miner's safety 1.mp He was pr ldent of the Royal Society of England for s ven years Frank Jood, Jr 'to Chemlstry JOHN MARSHALL fl7 5 l 353 John Marshall was born on Sept mber 2A 1755 at Germantown, On th outbreak of the Revolutlonary var, he gav up his law stud 1 s to Joln the patrlot army, and by 1777 recelved the tlln He was at Valley Forg durlng the terrlble wint 1778 took part ln v ral lmportlnt battles, attended law at Wlllizm and Mary Colleg and the followlng year t th r rank of Cap r of 1777 lectures in was admltted Between 1782 1787 Marshall w s s veral tlmes elected to stat Leelslatur of Va and in 1788 he vas chos n del gate to th t t conv ntlon which adopt d the Federal Constltution No man has equal d hlm in developing thf fund mental prlnciwles of the constl tutlon James Monro led th d bite in favor of the ratiflcatlon As years went by, his r putatlon s a lawyer constantly wld n d sident Washlngton asked hlm to be Attorney G ner 1 of the Unlted t H decllnrd, but cons nted to go to Parls in 1797 witr P10 y and Gerry to settle v rlous qu stlon arlsing from TSSUT1CtlOHS Amerlcan commerce On return to the United States he was elect d to dent Adams Congress and in 18Oo, becrrt ry of Qt te ln the cabinet of Pre 1 On January 31, 1801, he began his career as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court H adopt d new methods of procedure, gave the court uthority that he beli ved it wa intended lt should exert, and by mast rly nalysis of constitutional questions, set pr e dent for the lnt rpret tion of n rly eV ry point of the Constltu tlon as lt existed before the wer of seces ion He Served in thl offlc for thlrty four y ars and was the most famous chlef Justice John Marshall was a steadfast supporter of the Constitution We of our day and age have come to an even greater realization of the great benefits that the constitution provides Beverly Cheeseman 'L5 History C' - l H . , S . 3 ca. . C5 1 X V V ' ' f . Q . x ' .- ' ' A .a ' .. ' .1 y La 1 . . Q G x . 3 . . 1 -' n a u ' ' is Q a 1. . . 'A ' 'A . a 2 A A A , . C, . , - Lf :J ' A Q A L 9 CS ' L . f 3 U is . I! I c . . 5 - 3 . Q 1 , Va 6 4. . ' 1 in ' - ,J - . X . . n . , , X . 4 V2 V l . - . , .. . I f . . I A ' o G A Ku ' ' , ' se e ' 1' ' Q '- 'H 1 ' ' f' if ' L 'T 2 U K ' ' . 3 o e ba . n , l ' ' ' '- tl ii H ri , . J, e 8. 1 J e eau e s a e . - - ... 71 1 - t v Ka g G ' e ' 1 J e ' ' - ' I ' '- ' , , I - x . . . I , ' , ' n U A D U L ' 5 - -- A ' - .- .- ' ,- ' U f me r C LJ A .- . ' l ' PPC - -A - 3 1 'n A F1 . ' . . ' ' nDtil US a G ' 3 U ' f ' L K A .1 I H . I . C. r . . . Y nu ' CJ. Q, Q ' . on 1 2 . J 1 ' 1 -6 H I' 1 .x L3 Ll C' Q A . 'X ' xs ' ' 'Q I ' J l 1 .x ' ' - ' -1 ' J 6 2 'a 1 ' J Q . , o , ga f A 6 .1 S .1 A J 'A 6 ' ' ' A tl G ' nz- ': ' 1 - ' D ' ex U-, Q2 ' - . . , C A 'I S 0 A S . . I O U - U f . A . . ,- , X I I r- Q . ,, 1 r x 1 0

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PENICILLIN Penicillin is produced by the fermentation of common mold similar to familiar mold that forms on bread and cheese Pen 1c1llium notatum lS a mold known to house wlves as a musty smelling growth that forms on bread, cheese and over rlpe mel ons Thls unpleasant looking fungus growth 13 the producer of penicillin, most wldely useful therapeutic agent to combat in faction in man It was discovered by Dr Alexander Fleming of England in 1929 While examlning culture plates of staphylococcl he noted that one of them had become contaminated by exposure to air As a result a mold had begun to form Around th1s mold there was a clear ring M1CPOSCOplC ex aminatlons showed that the ring was completely free of bacteria Evldently the mold was glving off some substance that was death Dr Fleming made pure cultures of this mold, He conducted experiments wlth the substance it excreted to determine the effect on other bacteria He found that pen1cill1n, the name he gave to that substance, was non toxic to animals and that lt dld not damage blood corpuscles, After publishing these findings Dr Fleming turned his attention to other problems Here the fate of Penicillin rested The sulfa drugs were monopollzing the attention of chemists It was not until 1956 that systematic administration of Penicillin was pioneered by investigators at Oxford University By 1941 they had produced penicillin 1n pure enough form to justify experiments on human patients whose infections reels ted every kind of treatment including the sulfa drugs The fame of Penicillin spread, Large scale production was qulckly under taken in the United States to provide our Armed Services with this most epochal medical discovery of the age the life saver Penicillin that so often succeeds where even the famed Sulfa Drugs fail, As a Military Medicine in the treatment of war wounds and burns Penicillin is a powerful weapon against bacterial infec tlon When wounds are treated with Penicillin, the deadly microbes are quickly reduced in number, the healing process is speeded up, and a more complete restoratlon of function is obtained in the injured parts It is enormously valuable in cutting down the number of amputatlons on wounded soldiers and there is deflnite evidence to the Staphylococci colony.