The treatments proved to be futile and Klara Hitler died at home in Linz from the toxic medical side-effects of iodoform on 21 December 1907.
12.
For the next 46 days ( from November to early December ), Dr . Bloch performed daily treatments of iodoform, a then experimental form of chemotherapy.
13.
Klara Hitler's mastectomy incisions were reopened and massive doses of iodoform-soaked gauze were applied directly to the tissue to " burn " the cancer cells.
14.
Conditions / substances to avoid include : heat, light, bromides, chlorides, ammonia, alkalis, cyanides, copper salts, lead salts, iodoform and hydrogen peroxide.
15.
She died on 21 December after intense suffering involving daily medication with iodoform, a foul-smelling and painful corrosive treatment typically used at the time and administered by Bloch.
16.
Before these, physicians used a variety of chemotherapeutic agents with limited success, such as carbolic acid, alcohol, iodine, and iodoform in the peritoneal cavity or elsewhere.
17.
When iodine and sodium hydroxide are used as the reagents a positive reaction gives iodoform, which is a solid a room temperature and tends to precipitate out of solution causing a distinctive cloudiness.
18.
Methanogenesis, being the natural final stage of anaerobic digestion, is inhibited by the presence of the ammonium ions or by the addition of an inhibitor ( e . g ., iodoform ).
19.
He was the first to describe the bacterial infection " Trichomycosis palmellina ", He is credited for introducing iodoform into dermatology and for employing emplastrum saponatum salicylicum for the treatment of eczema.
20.
The reaction of iodine and base with methyl ketones is so reliable that the " iodoform test " ( the appearance of a yellow precipitate ) is used to probe the presence of a methyl ketone.
