Word: arsenicated
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...African sleeping sickness, on the other hand, is well known to be a blood parasite (trypanosome) transmitted by the tsetse fly. It never occurs outside of Africa. It has been almost conquered by driving the fly away from human habitations, and the prescribed method of treatment (usually with arsenic in certain forms) is generally effective. Unlike encephalitis, trypanosomiasis is always characterized by a severe progressive fever-a daily rise of temperature...
Baroness Leontine Puttkammer, was arrested in Vienna. She was accused of having put arsenic in her husband's coffee. Dr. Adolph Gessmann, President of the Vienna Credit Bank, found that his new bride, descendant of the Iron Chancellor, was a manhater. She left him shortly after her marriage, on the ground that she did not like men. Persuaded to return, she poisoned Dr. Gessmann the first evening after their reunion...
...Horley, England, five circus elephants "farmed out for heavy work to keep their weight down", were poisoned with arsenic "by some miscreant." Three died...
...Louis Danval, a pharmacist at Paris was convicted of poisoning his wife with arsenic, after a quarrel. Chemists had found one milligram of arsenic in the woman's body. M. Dan-val was sentenced to life imprisonment in New Caledonia. Then in 1902 Gabriel Bertrand, French chemist, announced that arsenic is habitually found in the human body. Danval appealed, was released. He appealed also for rehabilitation but the French courts refused to grant this in 1906. By 1921 new evidence was available and he again appealed. The French courts appointed a committee of experts to report. They announced that...
...destroy their crops, are beginning to wonder if the cold snap has reduced the insect ravage. In the past, an exceedingly cold winter in the eastern cotton belt has usually been followed by several years of good crops. The boll weevil, while apparently able to grow fat on the arsenic compounds with which the cotton plant is sprayed, cannot endure extreme cold weather. Whether the recent cold spell was long enough to seriously hurt the weevil is the real question...