A Pauling oversight.I was surprised to find no mention of Linus Pauling's theory of anesthesia in "Comfortably Numb" (SN: 7/3,/04, p. 8). In 1961, Pauling provided detailed arguments that interactions between anesthetic agents and water, rather than lipids, form hydrate hydrate (hī`drāt), chemical compound that contains water. A common hydrate is the familiar blue vitriol, a crystalline form of cupric sulfate. Chemically, it is cupric sulfate pentahydrate, CuSO4·5H2O. microcrystals in the brain that entrap side chains of proteins and interfere with electrical oscillations oscillations See Cortical oscillations. . STEPHEN LAWSON, LINUS PAULING INSTITUTE The Linus Pauling Institute was established at Oregon State University in August 1996 under an agreement reached between OSU and the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine (located in California from 1973 to 1996). , CORVALLIS, ORE. |
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