Word: arsenicated
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...three air hours from Miami, the weekend of turmoil only topped off a chaotic political record. In the 153 years since independence, Haiti has had two emperors, one king and 30 Presidents, only two of whom peacefully turned the office over to their successors. Haitian rulers have been fed arsenic, dynamited, driven to suicide, torn to pieces...
...company of these carrion slingers. Says Curtis the flack of Lancaster the gossipist: "You got him for a friend; you don't need an enemy!" Says Burt to Tony: "I'd hate to take a bite out of you. You're a cookie full of arsenic...
...Cure. In Ann Arbor, Mich., Mrs. Lucy Wireman, 30, denying that she tried to kill her husband, who was hospitalized with a severe case of arsenic poisoning, admitted to police that she had been spiking his beer with rat poison for four years but only "to cure him of the drinking habit...
...many cases of accidental poisoning, including those involving children, is that they are caused by proprietary preparations whose ingredients are not listed on the label. So even if a doctor is called at once, he may not know whether to treat the victim for acid or alkali, arsenic or strychnine poisoning. For such dilemmas, the book counsels: "As soon as vomiting occurs, or if it does not occur within a few minutes, give the patient several teaspoonfuls of 'universal antidote' "-a mixture of two parts activated charcoal, one part magnesium oxide and one part tannic acid...
...TRIOX (arsenic): wash stomach with two to three quarts of water followed by glass of milk, give sodium sulfate as cathartic, give oxygen and transfusions as needed...