Word: poisoner
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After Göring's suicide, elaborate theories blossomed. Samples: the poison capsule was hidden in his pipe stem, in a small abdominal incision, in a tooth, in the binding of a book. Dizziest theory of the lot was that Göring faked the gurgling sounds of pain which first attracted the guard to his cell; thereupon the guard summoneJ the doctor, who then administered the poison...
...elaborate schemes were not necessary. The number of people who had opportunity to give poison to Göring were legion. There were German doctors, cooks and laundry workers. While working in the prison they were forbidden to go outside, but they had contact with people from outside. Then there was the courtroom itself: during recesses throngs of people milled about the dock and papers were passed back & forth. Not since the day Göring entered Nürnberg prison was he forced to submit to a rectal examination. Other parts of his body (his ears, for instance) went...
...alarmed Mohandas K. Gandhi offered advice to the women which, for a vegetarian, seemed surprising: the only way they could avoid dishonor, he said, was to bite their tongues or hold their breath until they died.* If that would not work, he snapped, let them take poison. He was feeling crotchety, anyway, and "thoroughly ashamed" of an error he had made in a letter, calling the Moslem League "the authoritative representative" (of an overwhelming majority of Indian Moslems), instead of "the most authoritative representative." Peevishly, he muttered that a man who made such mistakes probably would not live...
...phial of potassium cyanide was all Hermann Göring needed to cheat the gallows (see INTERNATIONAL). The poison is a favorite with suicides. It is quick: five grains kill in 15 minutes; a heavier dose will do the job in two. Unless given immediately, antidotes are useless...
...researchers (including groups at Manhattan's Memorial Hospital, the University of Chicago, the University of Utah) got busy on the delicate task of concocting a healing dose of mustard. They eventually settled on four intravenous injections, on successive days, of minute amounts (five to seven milligrams) of the poison...