Precious metals
margaret Franklin writes that silver and other precious metals have a far higher value for health than for wealth.
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ollowing its launch of the International Year of Chemistry at UCD and the Women’s Breakfast Networking Event at the University of Limerick last January, the latest event organised by the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland to mark IYC 2011 was a lecture given on April 28th in the Royal College of Surgeons by Dr Malachi McCann, a senior lecturer in chemistry at NUI Maynooth. In a lively presentation, entitled ‘Syphilis, MRSA and Cancer — Cures with Metal Ions”, Malachi gave a brief history of this fascinating aspect of medicinal chemistry, before going on to describe his own researches in this field. Before launching into his talk, Dr McCann paid tribute to his former colleague, the late Rev Professor Michael T Casey, OP, Hon FICI, who had conducted extensive research in the Chemistry department in Maynooth for many years, continuing to work in the laboratory each afternoon until well into his nineties. He died on Christmas Day 1997, in his 96th year. He was a con ?????????????????????????????a?????????????d????
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