Word: toxication
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flame & Smoke. High explosives are chemical compounds, of course, but they are not in the special province of the chemical warfare service. This branch concerns itself with 1) toxic gases; 2) incendiary substances; 3) smoke screens...
...gases are classified as 1) lacrimators (tear-gas); 2) systemic toxic agents (blood poisons); 3) lung injurants; 4) respiratory irritants; 5) vesicants (blister-producers). As War gases the first two are the least destructive. Tear-gases have some value because very low concentrations force masking, with attendant loss of efficiency and morale; 6,000 tons of lacrimators were used throughout...
...should be a comfort to common soldiers and civilians, if not to military strategists, that the most poisonous gases in the laboratory, the systemic toxic agents, are of little use in war. Hydrocyanic acid, now used to execute criminals in closed chambers, is so volatile in open air that it tends to disperse harmlessly. The French started using hydrocyanic acid in 1916 and put over 4,000 tons. Casualties were practically...
Worry is a dissociation and deflection of attention, a confusion of mental focus by anxious concern for incidentals and neglect of the essential element." It is also "deliberation turned toxic." Most Oriental languages have no word for such a typically modern state of mind. Although "forethought is essential to intelligent living, it is only when apprehension is ruled by nervous anxiety . . . that worry injures us." Brooding, it follows, is "meditation made sick by fear." Confronted by situations that we do not know how to face, or do not want to face, our concepts of the kind of action possible...
...Soon as the news reached Manhattan, Memorial Hospital, U. S. headquarters for cancer information, warned: "Lead therapy was abandoned at Memorial Hospital after extensive experience. The general toxic effects were found to be too severe. It can be stated that no method of combating the chronic toxic effects of lead has been found. . . . No new results of newer lead therapy methods seem to justify raising new hopes...