Word: dose
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poisons man has concocted to combat his insect and rodent enemies, thallium sulfate is one of the most potent. Vermin can hardly stay away from it; they go right on nibbling baits containing the chemical until they have absorbed a fatal dose. Trouble is, children are likely to do the same, because thallium-sulfate baits are often put up in the shape of doughnuts or made of crumbled cookies. Last week, after years of tracking down victims of infantile curiosity, the A.M.A. Journal reported that nine Texas children died of proven thallium-sulfate poisoning between...
...make a patient's hair fall out-which made it easier to treat ringworm of the scalp. After such treatment hundreds of patients became ill, and scores died. Thallium salts were shunted from the medicine cabinet to the poison shelf. In 1957, the Texas legislature cut the allowable dose of thallium sulfate in a rat-poison mixture from 3% to 1%; the U.S. Department of Agriculture did the same in 1960. But even the weaker mixture is dangerous: it takes only half an ounce of chemically adulterated cookies to kill an average three-year...
...well-dressed, middle-aged man walked into a branch of Tokyo's Teikoku Bank wearing the armband of a municipal official. Claiming that he was a city health inspector, the man ordered the bank manager to summon all his employees so that he could give them a dose of antidysentery medicine. The employees gulped the potion, then collapsed in agony. From the open vaults, the medicine man grabbed about $185 in cash and disappeared into the street. Behind him, twelve people lay dead of cyanide poisoning...
...offended by this intransigence were unwilling to see that for me the slightest wavering would have brought collapse. Limited and alone though I was, I had to climb to the heights and never then to come down. (1940, describing his wartime leadership) Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends. Aloofness, character, and the personification of greatness, these qualities it is that surround with prestige those who are prepared to carry a burden which...
...years, Dr. Johnstone kept detailed records of every dose of antibiotics given to patients in a test ward in Vancouver General Hospital. University surgeons did the operations and prescribed what they thought best. Of 1,020 patients whose wounds were not infected to begin with, 401 got prophylactic antibiotics, while 619 got none. In Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics, Dr. Johnstone reports the astonishing result: among those who got the antibiotics, 25% developed infections-almost three times the rate for the other patients. There were four times as many infections caused by staphylococci. Those World War II battlefield germs, notes Dr. Johnstone...