Word: bismuth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...owns a 2,300-acre cattle and dairy ranch near Wichita Falls, Tex., is a deacon in the Baptist church, and describes himself as a "weekend" golfer. He flew his private plane to Rochester expecting to watch more golf than he played. Long before the finals, he was taking bismuth tablets to quiet the butterflies in his stomach. He had never been so close to a major golf title in his life, although he had accomplished the almost incredible feat of winning the Grand American trapshooting championship...
...Alexander of Dallas' Syphilis and Venereal Disease Clinic started looking for a quick way to knock out syphilis while it is still in the incubation stage. They think they have found it. Their "abortive treatment" consists of injection of 900,000 units of penicillin, three cubic centimeters of bismuth ethylcamphorate, 0.05 to 0.06 grams of arsenoxide. The drugs cost only one-tenth of the full penicillin treatment, and the injections take only five minutes. Out of 148 patients who had been in contact with known syphilitics, 127 were under observation for three months; only six developed early syphilis...
...Wells's The World Set Free (1914) is even more prescient. It describes a war in which "most of the capital cities of the world" are destroyed by atomic bismuth bombs, with "millions of people" dead or dying amid complete chaos...
...children's tonsillitis, many U.S. doctors have been prescribing a new drug called Analbis. The drug, a bismuth compound, has an affinity for lymph and attacks the infection in sore throats. In the last three years doctors have used it for hundreds of thousands of patients...
What had gone wrong? One guess: overdosing. Children whose deaths could definitely be attributed to the drug had all received more than the recommended amount (half a suppository each 24 hours). Two of the preparation's ingredients-bismuth and heptadienecarboxylic acid-are dangerous except in very small doses...