Word: toxication
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...angina pectoris, in electric shock, in chloroform or benzol poisoning, a certain toxic factor is developed in the blood which upsets the heart's regular timing. From two first stages of disorganization the heart can ordinarily recover. But if something mental or physical excites the accelerator nerve or stimulates the adrenals to pour an excess of adrenalin into the blood, the ventricles begin to fibrillate. And shortly the heart tires and stops...
...Although not definitely proved, the evidence seems to indicate that nicotine is at least one of the toxic factors [in cigaret smoking] and that carbon monoxide and the products of the cigaret papers may be eliminated as offending mediums." Other suspect factors: "Ammonia, pyridine and pyridine derivative, cyanides and sulpho-cyanides, arsenic...
...lavage, a purging of the stomach and intestines with quantities of milk and eggs. But it must be done quickly and at best one victim in four dies. Survivors often have permanently damaged kidneys. Dr. Rosenthal's antidote is sodium formaldehyde sulphoxylate, which changes the poison into less toxic mercurous compounds. It is administered through a stomach tube and intravenously. Dr. Rosenthal has saved every one of ten acutely poisoned humans, without appreciable kidney damage, hopes hospitals throughout the land will test his foil for suicides...
...above doctors give six other reasons-including the fact that emetine is a toxic drug-why TIME should not have published a dysentery treatment. But they are superfluous, since TIME concedes the argument on the first round, accepts rebuke...
Calm and fearless, the bushmaster is one of the rare snakes (others: African mamba, Malayan king) which will attack a human being without provocation. Though its venom is slightly less toxic than the fer-de-lance's, it injects far more, hence is deadlier. One human victim died in less than ten minutes...