Word: toxication
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...this scanty evidence, Dr. Waksman and his German colleagues allow themselves only cautious optimism. But Waksman is sure that scientists will now be going back to the 100 or more antibiotics that have been discarded as too toxic. Perhaps others will be found among them to attack specific types of cancer cells...
...half-Irish, half-Hindu satirist who likes nothing better than to undo the mental shoelaces of the English. In The Prevalence of Witches, he spoofed the pukka sahib set in India. In The Backward Bride, he showed a good Sicilian lad in the process of being poisoned by the toxic doctrines of an Oxford freethinker. In his latest novel, Author Menen grafts his wit on another culture, lets his English hero bloom like a quirky Renaissance prince...
...Parasite. Last week the word came back from the police laboratory:"We have identified a vegetable alkaloid having the toxic and biological characteristics of ergot, a cereal parasite." Pont-Saint-Esprit had been stricken by ergot poisoning, a medieval disease as old as its proud bridge, so old that it had almost been forgotten. Modern medicine knows about ergot, but has rarely seen it in the form of an epidemic disease.* It is a black fungus that grows on wet grain, contains chemicals that powerfully affect the blood vessels and the nervous system. Doctors often use ergot extracts to start...
Such chemicals appear to be of great interest since they may lead to suitable non-toxic substance to block malignant growth...
...would ever be the first to use such weapons. "Our use of them would be purely retaliatory," said McAuliffe. But he warned the chemists that other countries must be working on nerve gases, too. Said McAuliffe: "It is a well-known fact that many German scientific experts on toxic chemical warfare are being exploited by Soviet Russia. It must be assumed, therefore, that we are not the sole possessors of the offensive and defensive secrets of the new nerve gases...