On September 30, 1846, fellow American dentist William Morton performed a painless tooth extraction on a patient who submitted to ether—the same compound used by Long in 1842.
(2 Timothy 2:15) The expression “handling . . . aright” is from a compound Greek verb that originally meant “straightly cutting,” or ‘to cut straight.’
Quinine, a substance derived from the bark of cinchona trees, provides an example of the drawbacks of isolating the active compound from a medicinal plant.
The Saharan silver ant’s compound heat shield helps the insect to keep its body temperature below the maximum it can tolerate —128.5 degrees Fahrenheit (53.6°C).