Diethyl ether of vitriol" ("oleum dulce vitrioli")—the name reflects the fact that it is obtained by distilling a mixture of ethanol and sulfuric acid (then known as oil of vitriol)—and noted some of its medicinal properties. At about the same time, Paracelsus discovered ether's analgesic properties in chickens. The name "ether" was given to the substance in 1729 by August Sigmund Frobenius. Diethyl ether Diethyl ether, or simply ether, is an organic compound in the ether class with the formula , sometimes abbreviated as (see Pseudoelement symbols). It is a colorless, highly volatile flammable liquid. It is commonly used as a solvent
Today is Tonight Today is Tonight Today is Tonight is a novel written by Hollywood actress Jean Harlow in the mid-1930s but not published until 1965. Harlow's friend, Ruth Luise Hamp (1906-1968) inherited the rights to the unpublished manuscript, "Today Is Tonight", when Harlow's mother died, and then published the novel. Ezra Goodman, the film critic, wrote the introduction. Harlow's agent, Arthur Landau wrote the foreword. According to Landau, in his foreword to the novel, Harlow had expressed interest in writing a novel as early as 1933–1934 and completed a manuscript before her death in 1937. After her death, Landau writes, her mother