Word: toxicated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drug has some toxic effects on man (vomiting, a skin rash), but Dr. Brown thinks they are not so bad as mumu...
...extraordinary new insecticide DDT is not without drawbacks. Last week doctors of the U.S. Public Health Service issued a warning (confirming some previous reports-TIME, June 12) that DDT may be toxic to people and animals as well as insects...
...World War II a Geigy chemist, Paul Muller, rediscovered the formula and found that it killed bugs. Its first test came during a plague of potato beetles in Switzerland in 1939. DDT stopped the beetles dead. Concentrated DDT is toxic to men and animals when swallowed, but in the weak dilutions used for sprays and dusts, it has been found harmless to the skin...
...Samples of a captured Nazi drug, which is supposed to rival penicillin, were analyzed by British Army doctors, turned out to be marfanil, a sulfa drug. According to the New York Times, marfanil's "curative properties are second only to penicillin" and it is "no more toxic than sulfanilamide." The British Army has already tried...
...looked for. They stopped deadly streptococci, even cured pneumonia. But the more sulfa drugs were used, the clearer it became that they 1) sometimes delayed healing by irritating wound walls, 2) did not work well in serum or pus. When used internally, they can cause severe, sometimes fatal, toxic reactions (TIME...