Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arara, a flat flounder-like fish of northern Brazil, has its tail equipped with a sharp spike containing a kind of poison. When the fish senses danger it raises the spike perpendicularly. Natives walking in the shallow waters of the region have been pierced, poisoned to death by the weapon...
...bared her soft, well-rounded arm and jabbed it with the virus point. She didn't want it done. . . . And her par-ents fought against it. ... but the authorities, the tools of the medical autocrats, insisted. So they injected into that blooming, perfect body the wicked vaccine virus, poisonous pus that comes from the sore of a diseased cow. And it did its deadly work. The poison spread through her system and the roses faded from her cheeks. She became a pallid, sickly thing, grew rapidly weaker and weaker-and died. The authorities said she died of pneumonia...
...writes Simon Louis Katzoff, M. D., Ph. D., of Bridgeport, Conn., in Bernarr Macfadden's magazine called Physical Culture. Among other alleged opponents of "pus-instillers" he cites W. E. Gladstone, Victorian Premier of England. The main arguments are: 1) It is immoral to inject poison into the human body. 2) Smallpox is a filth-disease and hygiene is the sure preventative. 3) Compulsory vaccination is tyrannical...
...Concord, Mass., 19 children, and at Bridgewater, Mass., 25 children, as a result of the serum developed swollen limbs, sore eyes, nausea. The serum had become congealed in transit from Washington to Boston. The vaccine is made by combining the diphtheria poison with its antidote in such a way as to produce immunity from diphtheria. The freezing separated some of the serum from its antidote, so that the mixture became "moderately poisonous...
...recent years epilepsy has been more generally associated with a disorder of metabolism.* It is thought that poor elimination resulting in accumulation of poison has been the cause of epileptic fits...