In each of these cases, one sees the same assumption brought into play: the industrial process, pushed to its limit, generates its own best medicine.

She was soon put to work helping Dr. Geiling establish the toxicity of elixir of sulfanilamide, a medicine that would be linked with scores of deaths because it contained a deadly industrial solvent.

As an important industrial material, the paranitrophenol is widely used in dyestuff, medicine and chemosynthesis plant.