Seneca

The earliest oil marketed in the United States came from springs at Oil Creek, Pennsylvania, and near Cuba, New York. It was used for medicinal purposes and was an article of trade among the Seneca Indians. At that time, the term Seneca Oil appfied to all oil obtained from the earth. The first oil well was drilled in 1859 in Pennsylvania to a depth of 21.2 m for Seneca Oil Co. It produced 280 t (2000 bbl) in that year. This was the beginning of cmde oil production. 

One of the reasons the tribes of early history were nomadic was to move periodically away from the stench of the animal, vegetable, and human wastes they generated. When the tribesmen learned to use fire, they used it for millennia in a way that filled the air inside their living quarters with the products of incomplete combustion. Examples of this can still be seen today in some of fhe more primitive parts of the world. After its invention, the chimney removed the combustion products and cooking smells from the living quarters, but for centuries the open fire in the fireplace caused its emission to be smoky. In ad 61 the Roman philosopher Seneca reported thus on conditions in Rome ... 

The pernicious effects of air pollution were first documented long ago. As early as 61 C.E., Seneca, a Roman... 

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Acknowledgements The financial assistance of MCYT and FEDER (Project BQU2001-0010) and Fundacion Seneca-CARM (Project PI-1/00749/FS/01) is highly appreciated. P. L.-L. also thanks Fundacion Seneca-CARM for a fellowship. 

Selection of Boiler Feed Pumps, Bulletin 781.1, Goulds Pumps, Inc. Seneca Falls, N.Y., Jan. 31, 1968. 

Lissens, W., De Meirleir, L., Seneca, S. et al. Mutations in the X-linked pyruvate dehydrogenase (El) alpha subunit gene (PDHA1) in patients with a pyruvate dehydrogenase complex deficiency. Hum. Mut. 15 209-219, 2000. 

A Roman philosopher named Seneca once wrote, Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Although he lived about 2,000 years ago, what he said then is still true. 

Notwithstanding Tukulti s experience, the primary cause of air pollution for most of history has been wood or coal fires, especially in crowded urban communities. The streets of Rome, for example, were notorious for their terrible, smoky character, caused by thousands of wood and coal fires. In 61 c.E. the Roman philosopher Seneca described how this foul air affected his mood "As soon as I had gotten out of the heavy air of Rome and from the stink of the smokey chimneys thereof, he once wrote, "... I felt an alteration of my disposition. ... 

The allusions to Democritus by Vitruvius, writing a century or more before Pliny, seem to apply to the real Democritus. Vitruvius says he wrote several works on the nature of things. Seneca attributes to him the invention of the reverbatory furnace, and the art of imitating natural gems, particularly the emerald, though it is probable that here also the real Democritus is confused with the pseudo-Democritus. 

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Polygala senega (Senega, senega root, Seneca snakeroot)... 

Bruijsse B, Feskens EJ, Schlettwein-Gsell D, et al. Plasma carotene and alpha-tocopherol in relation to 10-y all-cause and cause-specific mortality in European elderly the Survey in Europe on Nutrition and Elderly, a Concerted Action (SENECA). Am J Clin Nutr 2005 82 879-886. 

Biotransformation degradation rate k = 3 x 10 14 molcell -h 1 with microorganisms in Seneca River waters (Banerjee et al. 1984). 

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