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...became the first American known to have died from man-of-war stings. Though he had had coronary artery disease, there was no sign that he had suddenly had a heart attack. Dr. Valone thinks that Goodman died of shock brought on by the man-of-war's poison...
Many other jellyfish have stings, but those of the Physalia group secrete a nerve poison almost as virulent as the king cobra's venom. The abundant Caribbean form, physalia, is rarely more than eight inches across its mauve, iridescent, jellylike body, but it has scores of tentacles up to 50 ft. or even 100 ft. long. These tentacles are like strings of microscopic beads, containing tiny poison cells consisting of a hollow, coiled thread with a barb...
...Instant Poison. "When it is irritated," says the University of Miami's Zoologist Charles E. Lane, "the cell extends the hollow thread, and when the barb has penetrated the skin, it squeezes a tiny drop of poison the length of the tube." The instant a tentacle touches a bather, hundreds of cells go into action in a fraction of a second...
James Vorenberg '49, professor of Law, said that reviews in the press of an alleged crime, arrest, or background of a defendant can often "poison the minds of prospective jurors," making a fair trial impossible...
Colonel Eugene Abeya, was killed by a poison-arrow shot from ambush...