Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invisible thing that stole forth was phosgene, almost imperceptible war gas. Two girls were fishing from a rowboat in the harbor nearby. When the air surrounding them became charged with phosgene vapor in the minute proportion of one-half gram per cubic yard they went suddenly limp, as the poison acted on their lungs. Invisible swords in the hands of cowardly assassins would not have been so quick, so deadly...
...atom of phosgene which he possessed by any means which they would agree to suggest. His loss, he said, would be about $25,000. The experts then began a learned squabble, some advising that the phosgene be dumped into the North Sea, others declaring that such a procedure would poison untold millions of fish, and still others recommending that the safest thing to do would be decant the gas into new, strong tanks and sell it as quickly as possible to widely spread consumers. Eventually the consensus of opinion was that the phosgene should be disintegrated by the admixture...
Prohibitionists were delighted, anti's were disgusted, last week, to learn that a poisonous snake bite should not be followed by a powerful alcoholic drink. Dr. Afrania do Amaral, director of the snake serum institute at Butantan, Brazil, declared that far from being a remedy ". . . alcoholic liquors are harmful to persons bitten by venomous snakes." The alcohol acts first as a stimulant, speeding up the circulation, quickly distributing the poison through the body. When the effect wears off it becomes a depressant, lowering the victim's resistance, hindering him from using all his natural forces to fight...
...Poison theory exploded but kidneys still inflamed...
...simple, single disease. Originally the term "pneumonia" meant any disease characterized by high fever and inflammation of the parenchyma of the lungs. The vast number of causes-colds, bronchitis, influenza, typhoid fever, measles, fatigue, exposure-indicates its complexity. During the War men died of pneumonia after inhaling poison gases...