Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should say that poison gas warfare is positively the most humane type invented, because of its humanity; it must not be forgotten that it proved itself the most efficient during the World War even though its use on a large scale was limited to the last two years of that struggle", said W. B. Cannon '96, George Lee Higginson Professor of Physiology, yesterday in commenting on the recent CRIMSON interview on chemical warfare. "Of the 18,000 men in war hospitals that I have recently visited, only four veterans were suffering from poison...
...friend of the head pharmacist of the U. S. had a sore foot. He bought some bichloride of mercury tablets for an antiseptic footwash. Several days later he took several "Aspirin" tablets, died poisoned by the deadly bichloride. Therefore last week U. S. manufacturing druggists and editors of pharmaceutical journals had on their desks copies of a sharp letter from Dr. Ernest Fullerton Cook, chairman of the revision committee of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia and the dead man's friend. Dr. Cook's letter reminded every one that it was just to prevent such accidents that the Pharmacopoeia...
...poison is any substance which, when taken into the body in a single dose of 15 grains or less, is injurious to health or dangerous to life. Legal definition in New York State is a drug which produces death in doses of 60 grains or less. A bichloride tablet should not contain more than 8 grains of the poison...
Japan's promised "Big Drive" into China began at Shanghai last week with every modern weapon (except poison gas) including "crawling dragons...
...Delegates had no unanimous idea last week how poison gas can be "barred." Poisonous gases are an ordinary product of every nation's chemical works, which are a unit in its industry, which is part of the Machine Age. Last week the Geneva Conference did not feel big enough to even dream of limiting or disarming the Machine Age, but it was 2,500 people...