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Safrole
Sahara Desert
Salem witch-hunts
Salicin
Salicyl alcohol
Salicylic acid
Salix (willow), aspirin from
Salt
Saltpeter
Salvarsan
Sandoz, drug company
Sanger, Margaret
Santa Anna, Antonio López de
Sapodilla tree
Sapogenins
Saponification
Saponins
Sapotaceae family
Sarin
Sarsaparilla vine
Sarsasapogenin
Sarsasaponin
Sassafras oil
Saturated fatty acids
SBR (styrene butadiene rubber)
Schönbein, Friedrich
Scopolamine
Scotland, salt industry
Scott, Robert Falcon
Scurvy
Sea Diseases, Cockburn
Seafarers, and scurvy
Sea onion
Searle, G. D., drug company
Sea salt
Selangor, rubber plantations
Selliguea feei (Javanese fern)
Serendipity
Serine
Serturner, Friedrich
Serum cholesterol, fats and
Sex hormones
Sexual revolution
Shakespeare, William:
Hamlet
Romeo and Juliet
Shellac
Sickle-cell anemia
Silent Spring, Carson
Silk
artificial
Silk Road (trade route)
Silkworm moth
Silver
Simpson, James Young
Singapore
Slave labor
Slave trade
Smallpox virus
Smoking(illus.)
Soap
Sobrero, Ascanio
Society, chemical influences
contraceptives
olive oil
opium
rubber
soap
Socrates
Soda ash
Sodium bicarbonate
Sodium chloride
Sodium hydroxide (caustic soda)
Sodium-potassium pump
Sodium soaps
Solanaceae (nightshade family)
Solon
Solubility of salt
Solvay, Alfred and Ernest
Sorcery
Sour taste
Spain, and spice trade
Sperm suppressant
Spice Islands
Spices
trade in
See also Cloves; Nutmeg; Peppers
Spinach
Spiraea ulmaria (meadowsweet)
Standard Oil Company
Stanozolol
Staphylococcus bacteria
Starch, dietary
Staudinger, Hermann
Steam power
Stearic acid
Steroids
Stevia rebaudiana
Stockings, nylon(illus.)
Stopes, Marie
Storage polysaccharides
Stork, Gilbert
Strathleven (refrigerator ship)
Streptococcal infections
Structural polysaccharides cellulose
Strychnine
Strychnos nux-vomica
Stuyvesant, Peter
Styrene
Sucralose
Sucrose
Sugars
Sugarcane
Sulfa drugs
Sulfur, and rubber molecules
Sulfur dioxide
Sunscreens
Supernatural, belief in
The Surgeon’s Mate, Woodall
Surgery
Sweet taste
Syntex
Synthetic compounds
dyes
progesterone
quinine
rubber
textiles
See also Artificial compounds
Syphilis
Szent-Györgyi, Albert
Tafur, Bartolomé
Talbor, Robert
Tallow
Tasman, Abel Janszoon
Tastes
Taxation of salt
Tea
Terrorists, explosives
Testosterone
Tetraethyl lead
Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)
Theobroma cacao (cacao) (illus.)
Theobromine
Theophylline
Thermoplastic materials
Thermoset materials
Thomson, Joseph John
Thorn apple
Timbuktu
Tin
TNT (trinitrotoluene)
Toads, witchcraft and
Tobacco
Toluene
Tongue, and taste
Trade olive oil
Trade union movement
Trans double bonds
Trans-fatty acids
A Treatise of Scurvy, Lind
Treaty of Breda
Trichlorophenol
Triglycerides
Trinitrophenol
Tropical oils
Tropical rain forest destruction
“Truth serum,” 234
Trypan red I dye
Tunnels
“Twilight sleep,” 234
Twining, Alexander
Tyrian purple
Ultraviolet light absorption
United States, life expectancy
Unsaturated fatty acids
Urea
Vaccination programs
Valine
Vanilla planifolia (vanilla orchid)
Vanillin
Vasco da Gama
Venice
Venoms
Viagra
Victoria, queen of England
Vietnam War, Agent Orange
Vikings
Virgil
Viscose
Vitalism
Vitamins
A
B
C
Vulcanization of rubber
Wars See also World War I; World War II
Washing soda. See Soda ash
Water
Waterproofed coats
Watt, James
West Indies
Whale blubber
Wickham, Henry Alexander
Wieliczka, Poland, salt caverns
Willow bark
Witchcraft
Withering, William
Woad
Wöhler, Friedrich
Women
Wonder drugs
Woodall, John, The Surgeon’s Mate
Woodward, Robert
Worcester Foundation
World Health Organization
World War I
World War II
Wound infections
Yam, wild Mexican
Yellow dyes
Zanzibar
Ziegler, Karl
Zingerone
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
PENNY CAMERON LE COUTEUR, PH.D., teaches chemistry at Capilano College in British Columbia, Canada, where she has been a professor for over thirty years. Winner of a Polysar Award for Outstanding Chemistry Teaching in Canadian Colleges, she was formerly the head of Capilano’s chemistry department and was chair of pure and applied sciences. She has written chemistry distance-education courses, co-authored a chemistry textbook, and served as a project adviser in chemistry for universities in eastern Indonesia. She was born in Auckland, New Zealand, and now lives in North Vancouver.
JAY BURRESON, PH.D., has worked as an industrial chemist for a number of years, and has held a National Institutes of Health special fellowship for postdoctoral research into marine natural products at the University of Hawaii. He is presently general manager of a high-tech company and lives near Corvallis, Oregon.
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