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Streptomycin is slightly toxic (but no more so than the sulfa drugs, which do not halt TB) and makes patients rather dizzy. Though it suppresses the disease, it does not actually kill the germs. Patients who are taken off the drug do not continue to improve, sometimes relapse...
...Marseilles businessman, Emille Bouche, sprayed a 20-acre orchard infested with cockchafers, killed them all in 21 minutes. Honey bees (normally vulnerable to DDT) seemed undamaged. To find out whether Activated DDT was toxic to animals, Bouche fed 400 hens for two weeks on an exclusive diet of poisoned cockchafers. The hens thrived. Bouche, much impressed, promptly invested his all in building seven French factories for manufacturing Activated...
...name: SN 13,276. Last week in Atlantic City, Squibb Institute's Dr. James A. Shannon released some promising facts about this newest member of the eight-aminoquinoline group (to which belongs Plasmochin, antimalarial drug developed by German scientists in 1926, later discarded as ineffective and too toxic...
...most lethal rat-killer known is odorless, tasteless "1080" (TIME, Sept. 17), recently developed by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. The same basic poison was simultaneously isolated as the toxic element in a deadly South African plant called "Gifblaar." But 1080, like atomic energy, is almost too hot to handle. It is ideal for murderers. A human victim, without smelling or tasting a thing, could probably be done in by 1/50...
Other members of the household are the cretinous twins Bert and Mert (Peter Whitney), their loony little sister (Jean Heather) and-thanks to the toxic ministrations of mad-scientist Hall-a phosphorescent Grandma (Mabel Paige). ("I glow, don't I?" she says proudly.) By her light MacMurray reads about granddaughter Bonnie's great bank robbery; as she dies, the old lady bequeaths him the tune and its doubletalked words which-to the proper person-will reveal the hiding place of $70,000 in bank loot. After that things get a little complicated...