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...ragged team of barefoot doctors, who often have little more than an elementary-school education. Wei Guo, a second-generation barefoot doctor in the village of Shuiqu, says he knows what to do if he encounters any SARS cases. He will prescribe a popular traditional remedy called banlangen, a dose of antibiotics and perhaps an herbal tonic that promotes a patient's yin to counter an imbalance of yang. With much of the nation depending on such ill-informed care, the killer virus looks set to spread even further into China's underdeveloped interior...
...health problems." (In Belgium, by contrast, patients must be terminally ill.) Assuming their experience was like that of their other clients, the Dignitas staff then took the Stokes to see founder Ludwig Minelli, to verify their wish to die. A doctor who had reviewed their records prescribed a toxic dose of barbiturates, and the couple was taken to a bare apartment in Zurich. They likely lay down upon two single beds, ate some Swiss chocolate to help them swallow a bitter anti-vomiting medication, and then drank the barbiturate cocktail. Within minutes, they drifted into a coma, then died...
...same hitters that had torched a quartet of Crimson hurlers for 18 hits an hour earlier could not handle a steady dose of Hendricks’ 85-87-mph fastballs just below their knees...
...LETHAL DOSE 4,500 mg on skin, 1,500 mg inhaled...
...LETHAL DOSE 1,700 mg on skin, 70 mg inhaled...