Word: toxication
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...fathoms with a tank of oxygen on her back and her teeth clamped on an Aqua-Lung." It is not likely that she would be. Compressed air, not oxygen, is used with an Aqua-Lung, and oxygen breathed at depths of more than about 35 ft. becomes highly toxic to the human body, resulting in convulsions, blackout, and eventully death...
...India's so-called "miracle plant," rauwolfia serpentina, which has proved highly effective (in drug form) in treating high blood pressure and nervous disorders (TIME, Nov. 8). Drugs made from the new plant, rauwolfia sellowi, act on the nervous system like their Indian counterparts, but with a lower toxic effect...
...which nerve impulses are interrupted before they get to the muscles, leaving the patient pitifully weak and fatigued. Manhattan's Dr. Kermit E. Osserman reported that experiments with a new drug, pyrido-stigmin, produced partial rehabilitation of nearly half of 45 "moderate and severe cases," proved "definitely less toxic" than other drugs (e.g., neostigmine...
Farnsworth has not only introduced mental health to college hygiene however; he has expanded the hygiene department itself. At Tech he established occupational hygiene, concerned with inspecting and creating radioactive, toxic, and other "environmental" conditions of laboratories. He also instituted a system of insurance which extends protection beyond the hours when school is actually in session and the student is there. His reasons for such programs is simple: "What's the good of pouring the best education into somebody who is sick...
...anesthesia mortality rate was higher among men than among women. Reason: men, the wage earners, tended to put off hospitalization until disease was advanced, were generally more susceptible to anesthesia's toxic effects because of heart and circulatory ailments...