Word: arsenicals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first herds were brought by the Spaniards 300 years ago. But by 1906 cattle ticks had so ravaged the beasts that the Government banned the interstate shipment of southern cattle. In 1930, Florida ranchers had only 431,000 cattle, one-half the 1910 total. Then State-enforced "dipping" (in arsenic solution) started a comeback. The Florida Department of Agriculture now boasts of 1,400,000 head. But many Florida cattle are still underfed and mangy, bring only $20.90 a head (against a national average of $40.57, New Jersey high of $98.40). Dr. Shealy's solution: better grass...
...lungs, are soon blown away. More deadly are mustard and lewisite, which hang in wooded areas for days at a time. Against these, gas masks are only partial protection, for they attack men's bodies, produce ghastly burns. (Lewisite may also cause death from arsenic poisoning.) Helpers of the lethal gases are the sneeze, tear and vomiting gases. Used as harassing agents, they make men work in masks over long periods. Men who get a whiff of the harassing gases before they get on their masks, have to take them off, are then wide open to the killers that...
...splinting. 4. Injecting iron & arsenic. 5. Herb packs...
...many reforms: 1) soldiers who contracted venereal disease were court-martialed, deprived of pay; 2) all men far from prophylactic stations were given kits, and tubes of Metchnikoff's paste for prevention of syphilis; 3) all men who contracted syphilis were given injections of a new French arsenic preparation (no-varsenobenzol) based on Paul Ehrlich's 606. The older drug had been difficult to give, painful to take, but novarsenobenzol (neoarsphenamine) was so great an improvement that some doctors could make 100 injections an hour...
After the tumor peeled off, the patient was troubled with a new growth the size of "a large lima bean." When the doctors injected into it an arsenic compound, the lump disappeared in a few days. The patient lived "free from tumor" for two years, finally died of heart failure...