Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...author is conceited, and a few sensational features, such as an insinuation that President Wilson was administered a slow poison by Entente plotters while in Paris, cannot be approved. But the book will afford several entertaining hours, and the reader will perhaps regret that, "with the introduction of mechanical coding machines, cryptography as a science will become a thing of the past...
...Sometimes it extends into adult life. Last week Dr. Sutton explained how she had been treating a St. Vitus boy with sedative drugs, the usual remedy. In this case the drug aggravated the "dancing" spells. But through misunderstanding the child continued to receive the drugs, which were as mild poison to him. After two weeks he broke out with a rash. His fever climbed intermittently as high as 106.4° When Dr. Sutton cured the boy of his fever, she noted that his St. Vitus's Dance was gone...
...maximum temperature above which it cannot live. Experimentally, doctors are trying to raise body temperature above the germ-death heat by injecting fever-causing germs or nonspecific proteins, or by electricity. Dr. Sutton, having noted her patient's recovery from St. Vitus's Dance after a poison-produced fever, took a chance on another St. Vitus child by injecting typhoid serum. This second case grew feverish, sweated, recovered. She tried typhoid-paratyphoid serum on another. He too sweated and recovered. When she had cured 24 children of ugly St. Vitus's Dance with serums, she felt sufficiently...
...drug, is not a narcotic drug and therefore its users cannot be prosecuted under the Harrison Act. So in Louisiana the Legislature passed its own antimarijuana law. In California, Cornetist Louis Armstrong ("world's greatest Negro cornet player") was sentenced to jail for 30 days for taking poison when caught smoking a "reefer...
...Frankfurt, Emil Weiller, senior partner of the 136-year-old J. I. Weiller Sons, famed private bankers, took poison in his office, died...