Word: poisonings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When the Allied invasion of Europe unfolds full scale, fast armored divisions may be able to fan out over great stretches of terrain, chewing up opposing infantry and communications. But even that can happen only after Allied infantry has disposed of the German anti-tank artillery, which is poison to spearheads of tanks...
...Army doctors developed vaccines, extracts or serums against many diseases, including typhus, poison ivy and rinderpest (disease of cattle especially destructive in the Philippines). Hospital Surgeon Benjamin Waterhouse brought vaccination for smallpox...
...poison gas against our Russian allies by the Nazis or their satellites will immediately be followed by the fullest possible use of this process of war upon German munitions centers, seaports and other military objectives throughout the whole extent of Germany...
London sources later said that the Prime Minister had a very real, very disturbing reason for making this statement: Moscow had reported the capture of secret German papers which indicated that the Germans were planning to use poison gas on the Russian front...
...mania was called St. Vitus's dance because a visit to the saint's chapel sometimes worked a cure. The modern medical name for it is tarantism, after the wild Italian folk dance, the tarantella. The Italians have a common belief that the tarantella drives out the poison of a tarantula's bite by causing perspiration, and that the dance was named for the spider. Actually, both dance and spider were named for the city of Taranto, which was hit hard by the dancing mania...