Word: toxication
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fatal case of iodine poisoning was observed in Boston and vicinity. Reasons: 1) Iodine cannot be absorbed by the body without chemical change. It combines with fatty acids, proteins, starches, or unites with another element and changes from a powerful, slow-acting cell poison to a less toxic iodide. 2) Iodine produces such intense irritation of the gastrointestinal tract that the stomach rejects even small amounts...
There are four basic types of goitre- simple goitre (simple enlargement of the thyroid gland in the neck), toxic goitre, exophthalmic (popeye) goitre, and cancer of the thyroid. Nobody knows the specific cause of any of them. Pathologists know that it has something to do with lack of iodine, hormone imbalance or germs. The difficulty is especially perplexing in the case of exophthalmic goitre. This is the most dramatic type, giving the victim's features an expression of terror, his heart palpitations, and his disposition the fidgets...
...Toxicity. "Untoward reactions, even death, may result from the administration of sulfanilamide. . . . The toxic effects are more commonly the results of its indiscriminate use, but may occur from an idiosyncrasy. . . . Fifteen per cent of patients cannot take large doses, and 10% are unable to tolerate it at all. Patients in bed tolerate larger doses than do those who are ambulatory. Patients exposed to sunlight are more apt than are others to develop a skin rash." The rash may resemble measles, scarlet fever or hives, and break out on the face, trunk or extremities. Slight poisoning by sulfanilamide causes headache, vomiting...
...stage & film funster who invented the disapproving "stooge"; in Los Angeles, two nights after he had been beaten up near the Hollywood Trocadero where he was celebrating the birth of a son. A coroner's autopsy found that death was caused by no thrashing, but by "acute toxic nephritis, induced by acute and chronic alcoholism...
Lung Injurants are gases which cause pulmonary edema, which means that water pours into the lungs, suffocating or "drowning" the victim. Chlorine is a lung injurant. Phosgene (carbonyl chloride) is a much better one, not so irritating at first but ten times more toxic. This gas was first used by the Germans late in 1915 and then adopted by the Allies, while the Germans switched to diphosgene which is less stable than its chemical brother but easier to fill into shells. The phosgenes accounted for 80% of the War's fatal gas casualties. Nevertheless, it had a tell-tale...