Word: toxicated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Penicillin's toxic or irritant effect is "unimportant," except when it is injected into the spine; then it may cause convulsions. A few patients may get a rash, no matter how the drug is given; sensitivity may follow use of the drug, so it should not be used for minor ailments...
...Toxic ammo of the anti-fly movement is good new DDT, which will be sprayed on cattle, barns, downtown restaurants, garbage pails, old-fashioned outhouses. But the state authorities warn that DDT alone will not make Iowa flyless. Flies breed in any sort of decaying organic matter. Eggs hatch and adult flies develop in about eight days. DDT will kill flies, but only strict sanitation will keep the fly reserves from mounting a counteroffensive...
Negative opposition to federal world government was based on the belief that world federalism was impossible during the present "toxic atmosphere of international suspicion" and the theory that forms of government must follow from social conditions...
...easy. Roskin started by testing the effect of serum from cancerous mice on the sensitive paramecium, a single-celled protozoan.* The serum had no effect. But when it was inactivated by freezing, and then mixed in carefully measured proportions with healthy guinea-pig serum, the mixture developed a toxic factor which killed paramecia...
Roskin proceeded to test the serum of cancerous rabbits, then of human patients, found to his delight that when properly prepared, it was highly toxic to paramecia. No other serum, not even that from patients with benign tumors, produced the same effect. The paramecia-killing power of serum from animals with implanted cancer varied with the type of cancer. A cancer can sometimes be detected two days after it is implanted, before any visible tumor has developed...