Word: poisoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senators Ferguson and Brewster both said the hearings would be resumed. Then Senator Ferguson went off to Bethesda hospital, for treatment of a bad case of poison...
...University of Miami's Marine Laboratory, was sure it was a sudden multiplication of a new species of tiny, one-celled organisms called gymnodinium. He had found as many as 60 million of them in a quart of "red" water. The fish were killed either by a poison secreted by these organisms or as a result of their death and decay, he thought. Their sudden appearance might be explained by an increase in the phosphate content of Gulf water from phosphate plants near Tampa...
...Poison for Mrs. Attlee. At bottom, the crisis was economic. Britain was still a land of national hunger. British labor, especially the all-important miners, were simply not producing in sufficient volume. Britain was buying more goods abroad than she sold; the money with which to make up that deficit (the $3.75 billion U.S. loan) was running out much faster than it should; Britain had only $1 billion left and it was going fast. But suddenly from the steadily mounting pressure of impoverishment sprang a political crisis...
Following up this discovery, Trueta's investigators found that short-circuiting of the kidney cortex may be produced by many different stimuli. Direct electrical stimulation of certain nerves produced the same result; so did severe hemorrhages, heavy doses of certain hormones (e.g., adrenalin, pituitrin), and injections of the poison secreted by staphylococcus germs. All of these stimuli, the investigators decided, activate nerves which constrict the kidneys' blood vessels and divert the blood flow from the small vessels in the cortex to the larger ones in the medulla. Lack of blood in the cortex, in turn, raises blood pressure...
According to the Stillman staff "more people always get sick in the winter," but such was not the case in the summer school year of 1942 Contratto recalled. At this time the hospital optomistically closed three wards, only to be overwhelmed with poison ivy, bronchial complaints, and an epidemic of virus pneumonia...