Word: toxicated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...streptomycin also had some failures. Against typhoid fever, undulant fever and Salmonella (certain kinds of food poisoning), streptomycin showed "no dramatic results." The drug is also mildly toxic in doses above one gram a day: 20% of the patients treated had headaches, fever, skin rashes or dizziness...
...Biological warfare," writes Merck with detachment, "may be defined as the use of bacteria, fungi, viruses, rickettsias (e.g., typhus fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever), and toxic agents derived from living organisms. . . to produce death or disease in men, animals or plants." Under this broad directive, the scientists went to work...
...course, you didn't mean that the poor mother received transfusions of pure hemoglobin, which would have been toxic if not fatal. Mrs. Wenger probably received whole blood to build up her hemoglobin level...
...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...
...Department of Agriculture added a reassuring word: the danger of handling DDT has been greatly exaggerated. It is less toxic than other insecticides (arsenate of lead, nicotine), in two years has not injured any of the thousands of workers who have handled it constantly...