Word: bismuthate
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...water and food, doctors indict other villains, including the oil used in cooking, hot seasonings, even climate, altitude and just plain overeating. Mexicans, among whom dysentery is endemic, use such home-grown remedies as guava juice and seeds, guava-leaf tea, cactus pear seeds. Medically more accepted remedies: bismuth and paregoric, or in well-diagnosed cases under a doctor's care, the newer antibiotics. Currently popular is a new nonprescription tablet made by Ciba Pharmaceuticals called Entero-Vioform (an antiseptic containing iodine). A lot of these treatments, Mexicans hope, may become unnecessary as a result of the chemical warfare...
...REACTORS. British, Dutch and U.S. scientists spelled out almost to "do-it-yourself" simplicity the operations of their most advanced reactor designs. Chief among them: AEC's Brookhaven liquid-metal fuel reactor, powered by circulating molten solution of uranium in bismuth, in a "blanket" of thorium-bismuth compound (Th 3 Bi 5 ). The thorium breeds U-233, which is recycled as fuel, making fuel costs "negligible...
...Middle Ages, silver miners sickened and died of it. In the last century, cobalt and bismuth miners caught it. In the 1920s, the German government awarded compensation to the Schneeberg miners, and forbade them to work there more than two years in a row. Until the Reds took over, Schneeberger Krankheit affected only a score or so of miners a year. In the atomic age, the true nature of the illness has been revealed...
...began to make regular appearances at sick call. The medics tested his eyes, ordered glasses for him. Amborski complained of low back pain, but they could find nothing wrong with his back. His appetite fell off. He went back to the dispensary complaining of diarrhea. The corpsmen gave him bismuth cocktails. Stanley wrote to his father: "Get me out of here, Dad. I'm going to fall dead soon...
...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...