Word: poisoner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Director Emile Blanchard of the Agricultural Service Station Jean Brunschvik, diamond merchant whose name appeared on some Stavisky check stubs (TIME, April 2). Attempted Suicide: Lawyer Raymond Hubert who jumped into the Seine and Henri Hurlaux, Assistant Prosecutor of the Court of Appeal, who tried to drink poison. Mile Taris, witness for the prosecution, tried to jump into a canal. Racing down to Lorient after the police newshawks found that young Marguerite Henriot had been murdered and she was related by marriage to Philippe Henriot but she was not killed in the garden. Her tody was found in the house...
Ordinarily the gnats kill only horses & mules, but last week they were reported to be destroying cattle, hogs and poultry as well. Larger animals got throats and lungs clogged with them. Some think they poison their victims, others that the chief damage is loss of blood. Arkansas veterinarians and entomologists were researching frantically last week, but expected the gnats to be gone before they could learn much. Meantime they advised farmers to smear their stock with rancid lard and kerosene, with cottonseed oil and pine tar, or with a mixture of soap, water, petroleum and powdered naphthalin. But what...
...usually enough to kill. Taken in solution, the tablets painfully sear the mouth and throat. Swallowed whole, they may cause no pain for 30 or 40 minutes, or twice that time if the victim's stomach is full. Then follow abdominal cramps, vomiting, frequent bowel movements. Soon the poison seeps to the kidneys, stops the flow of urine. Pain varies with the dose and individual but is usually not agonizing. Victims fall into a coma, die within...
Ordinary treatment for such poisoning is gastric lavage, a purging of the stomach and intestines with quantities of milk and eggs. But it must be done quickly and at best one victim in four dies. Survivors often have permanently damaged kidneys. Dr. Rosenthal's antidote is sodium formaldehyde sulphoxylate, which changes the poison into less toxic mercurous compounds. It is administered through a stomach tube and intravenously. Dr. Rosenthal has saved every one of ten acutely poisoned humans, without appreciable kidney damage, hopes hospitals throughout the land will test his foil for suicides...
...weekly meeting was converted into a Beer Club. Last week they published their report and sadly blew the froth off a final meeting. Seventeen months of effort could produce no authoritative figures later than 1931, when the world spent about $6,000,000,000 for guns, warships, tanks, poison gas, airplanes, bombs and bullets of every variety. And even for that year many small nations would submit no complete documentation of their military expenses. A full meeting of the entire Disarmament Conference is called for the end of May, but the beer-drinking technicians knew last week that disarmament...