Word: dosed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poison. It first paralyzes an insect's hind legs, then gives it a violent attack of the jitters, finally brings on complete paralysis and death. Oddly, the pure chemical has little effect; it is good only in an oil solution or when mixed with inert powder. The usual dose is 1% to 5% DDT, dissolved in kerosene or mixed with a dust filler...
...Time was when a boiled or a poached egg was a delight; but now when hens are fed on scientific messes, a fresh boiled or poached egg is little better than a dose of glue on the stomach and the same goes for all foods which are grown not according to Nature's way but are fed on the formulae of a lot of Whitehall chemists...
...Strychnine, one of the surest, quickest killers (sometimes within 15 minutes), can be detected three months after death. One of the hardest poisons to detect is morphine (its effects are easily confused with alcoholism, apoplexy). One of the deadliest is aconite (a hundredth of a grain is a killing dose). Perhaps the worst poison a suicide can choose (but often chooses) is bichloride of mercury, which causes a horribly painful, lingering death...
Then Arefyeff began to dose his bees with medicines. When he gave them a concoction of honey and quinine, they gave back quinine-loaded honey. The converted honey medicine proved easier for a human being to assimilate than the medicine itself...
Penicillin seems to have done it again. A few cells of a certain kind of mouse cancer growing in a test tube have succumbed to the fabulous drug. The penicillin damaged or killed cancer cells, left normal cells unharmed. It took three times the cancer-killing dose of penicillin to hurt the normal cells. When penicillin-treated cancer cells were transplanted to cancer-susceptible rats, none got cancer. Untreated cells gave cancer to all of them...