Some years ago Dr. Edward H. Ochsner and I made a study of the action of boric acid when patients were treated for blood poisoning by means of compresses of boric acid solutions. The essential results were reported by Dr. Ochsner in a paper on “The treatment of septic infections of the extremities.“’ In that investigation it was found that when aqueous solutions of boric acid, to which alcohol ...

Commercial breath-alcohol simulators were studied to determine their suitability as calibrating devices and for providing control spocimens in breath-alcohol analysis. The best-fit exponential equation for the air/water partition of ethanol was found to by y = 0.0145e 0.06583x, where x = temperature ~ and y = Ka/wxl03. Temperature, volume, pressure, and alcohol depletion of simulators and their...