Word: potassium
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...what is the meaning of the recent nation-wide movement for constitutional prohibition? Is "personal liberty" to poison one's self by slow degrees recognized by either the law of the nation or public opinion? Is a man at liberty to use solutions of Paris green, arsenic, cyanide of potassium and other poisons, as beverages? Why should attractive solutions of alcohol, a slower but no less genuine poison than those mentioned, be sold and quaffed and dignified by custom and tradition as promoting good fellowship? Why in the name of common sense, should we not drink laudanum, "blue vitriol," dilute...
Professor Bose illustrated the inhibitory effect of alcohol, chloroform, either, and potassium cyanide on various plants and finally demonstrated that the nervous system of a plant, ten times more sensitive than that of an animal, may be controlled...