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...Vincent Montemarano was acquitted yesterday of a charge that he injected a lethal dose of potassium chloride into a 59-year-old cancer patient at Nassau County Medical Center in New York, December...
...problem, Rosenberg and Gutnick last winter boarded a 125,000-ton tanker to give RAG1 a practical test. Selecting two of the ship's tanks, which were each filled with 100 tons of sea water, they poured 55 lbs. of nitrogen-containing urea and 2.2 lbs. of potassium phosphates into each. Shipboard compressors were used to bubble air into the tanks through a perforated hose, thus turning them into ideal "bacterial fermenters," says Rosenberg. Then a flaskful of RAG1 bacteria was poured into one tank. Six and a half days later, the tanker discharged its ballast. The unbugged tank...
...taking. Preparations for the operation were painstaking. Oliver's body was packed in ice bags and suspended over a tank of cold water. When the infant's temperature had dropped to about 65° F. and his heart rate to 24 beats per minute, Replogle injected a potassium solution into the heart. That stopped the heart, leaving Oliver in a condition closely resembling death. With the patient's body functions literally frozen, the surgeon could operate without the risk of heavy bleeding and without the impediment of a pulsating heart muscle...
...uncomplicated. Making a tiny incision in the heart, Replogle sewed a dime-sized patch of Dacron cloth over the hole. After the incision was closed, he hooked Oliver up to a heart-lung machine for the first time; it pumped warm blood through his body and washed the potassium out of the heart tissue. The effect was immediate. Oliver's heart began to beat slowly, then gained momentum; within 30 minutes the beat was back to normal...
...smell of decomposing rats, brought still more complaints from the village of Burdinne, six miles away. Only last month, finally, did the ministry of labor, which deals with environmental problems, get around to investigating. It found that the vats contained between 2,000 and 3,000 tons of potassium cyanide-theoretically enough to kill every person in Europe...