Word: arsenicals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Uses. Normal body temperature is 98.6° F. The body, however, can endure internal temperatures up to 107.5° F. without dying and at that high temperature will positively recover from an attack of gonorrhea; will usually recover from primary or secondary syphilis, especially if drugs containing arsenic are administered during the course of the fever treatment; will frequently recover from tertiary syphilis, including paresis...
...more facile penman exists than The New Yorker's famed E. (for Elwyn) B. (for Brooks) White. Grave, smallish Writer White, whose devotees consider him the nation's ablest humorist, is generally content to muse on minor human foibles. In semi-serious vein he perennially campaigns against arsenic apple spray. He is a friend-but not, as reported by bumbling Alexander Woollcott, the founder-of the Enemies of Modern Aviation, Inc. Last week, however, connoisseurs recognized an unusually earnest thrust from the White rapier in a New Yorker paragraph which gave the President and his Court plan...
Mustard was far & away the most important vesicant in the European arena. In 1918, however, the U. S. was manufacturing a powerful blister-liquid called Lewisite, none of which reached the front. Because of its arsenic content, Lewisite may poison the blisters it produces. Author Prentiss declares that 30 drops of Lewisite splashed on a man's skin would be fatal. It is more volatile and less persistent than mustard gas, however, and if no arsenic poison sets in, its wounds heal more quickly. Author Prentiss believes that under favorable" conditions Lewisite would prove superior to mustard. British experts...
Piebaldness in Negroes is no rarity. It has sometimes been checked by doses of gold or arsenic compounds but hardly ever cured because no researcher has yet satisfactorily established the constitutional cause of the discoloration of a Negro's skin...
Vegetables and fruits formerly word not a common source of illness. Overripe fruit or uncooked fruit and raw vegetables that have been improperly cleansed occasionally cause trouble. Recently the extensive use of arsenic sprays of apples, peas, green beans, spinach, cabbage and lettuce has resulted in wide-spread outbreaks of acute gastro-intestinal irritation. Cider has been a prominent source of acute upsets, due to arsenic residues. Arsenic produces almost exactly the same symptoms as decomposed protein...