Word: arsenicated
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...food industries, where they efficiently remove such poisonous sprays as arsenic from fruits and vegetables-and even help mix dough thoroughly for bakers...
...Arsenic and Old Lace (TIME, Jan. 20); or Murder Made Side-Splitting...
...Last year doctors were agog over a new five-day treatment for early syphilis which used continuous, slow-drip injections of an arsenic compound. Experience has shown, said Dr. Moore, that while the five-day process is "excellent" for treating the syphilitic infection, it brings "an enormous increase in the danger to the patient." A number of patients so treated developed skin poisonings, neuritis, encephalitis. One out of every 300 died, a rate more than four times higher than that in standard treatment...
...driven to her trial in the prison van. Her dressy friends flocked to see the trial, carrying opera glasses and basket lunches. Florrie's counsel was Sir Charles Russell, later Lord Chief Justice. Her defense: that May-brick had long been addicted to drugs of all sorts, including arsenic; that it was at his own insistence that Florrie had put some "white powder" into his meat juice; that the cause of death had not been fixed with any certainty (which was true); that she had soaked the flypapers for arsenic to use as a face lotion, a common cosmetic...
...easily explained was a curious collection found in Florrie's trunk and in various places in the house: a package labeled "Arsenic-Poison for cats," three bottles with arsenic in them, a rag and a handkerchief impregnated with arsenic, other lethal odds & ends which doctors said were enough in sum to poison 50 people. Florrie was convicted, sentenced to be hanged...