Word: arsenicals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fermi. Dr. Lawrence obtained 5,000,000-volt gamma rays from salt, evoked the possibility of injecting harmless but radioactivated salt compounds into the human body as a cancer remedy. Dr. Fermi has coaxed radiations of beta particles (fast electrons) from phosphorus, iron, silicon, aluminum, chlorine, vanadium. copper, arsenic, silver, tellurium, iodine, a dozen others...
...Since then their results have been reproduced and extended in dozens of laboratories in a half-dozen countries, notably England, Italy, the U. S. Italy's Professor Enrico Fermi and his aids have coaxed radiations of beta particles (fast electrons) from phosphorus, iron, silicon, aluminum, chlorine, vanadium, copper, arsenic, silver, tellurium, iodine, chromium, barium, fluorine, sodium, magnesium, titanium, zirconium, zinc, strontium, antimony, selenium, bromine...
...definitely proved, the evidence seems to indicate that nicotine is at least one of the toxic factors [in cigaret smoking] and that carbon monoxide and the products of the cigaret papers may be eliminated as offending mediums." Other suspect factors: "Ammonia, pyridine and pyridine derivative, cyanides and sulpho-cyanides, arsenic...
Until 1220 when Alchemist Albertus Magnus discovered arsenic, mankind knew only ten elements-carbon, sulphur, gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, tin, antimony and mercury. In the next 500 years alchemists discovered only bismuth, zinc and phosphorus. Then scientific chemistry began By 1900, before which time perspicacious Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyeff figured that there must be 92 elements on earth, no more, no less, chemists had isolated 83. Last discovery of a tangible element, which could be handled and weighed, occurred in 1926 when Professor B. Smith Hopkins of the University of Illinois found Element No. 61 among some rare earths...
...smothers other vital processes. The acute form of the disease is explosive. Policemen cells apparently on regular duty suddenly become riotous. Lymph and marrow overwork furiously. Acute cases die within three months whereas the chronic forms last from six months to four or five years. Sunlight, x-ray treatments, arsenic dosage may prolong the leucemic's life. Cause of the disease is undetermined. Some physicians think that it is the result of a tumor in the marrow. Leucemia is by no means rare. During 1932 it took 2,794 lives in the U. S. That was more than...