Word: toxication
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...Taste & Toxicity. Last November the Reds introduced a bill into the French Assembly to "prohibit the import, manufacture and sale of Coca-Cola in France, Algeria and the French colonial empire." A Communist deputy shouted at France's Health Minister: "Are you going to permit the poisoning of French men & women by this toxic American drink being sold on the grands boulevards of Paris?" Health Minister Pierre Schneiter answered calmly: "Let the French drink what they like and trust their good taste." That good sense carried the day and the Communist bill was defeated...
Tibione is more toxic than streptomycin or P.A.S., but most patients suffer only loss of appetite, malaise, and skin eruptions which look like measles. These side effects soon pass, and Tibione (unlike streptomycin) can be given to a patient for months or even years. It is taken in tablet form, usually four times a day. Because the drug was developed during the war, the German patents are no good and any U.S. manufacturer can make it. A few patients in U.S. hospitals have been dosed with Tibione; it will soon be tried on thousands...
...Favor? Drug manufacturers, catering to the hopeful eagerness of snifflers, have been trying to find an anti-histaminic which would not cause side effects. The Nepera Chemical Co. of Yonkers, N.Y. came close with neohetramine. Several doctors reported it less toxic, and toxic to fewer people, than other drugs in the same family. In September the Food & Drug Administration, satisfied that the average customer would not be upset by the recommended dosage, authorized its sale over the counter...
...developed by Ehrlich, proved to be effective against syphilis. Much later, in 1935, came the sulfa drugs, the medical wonders of their day. But none of the chemical "magic bullets" was effective against more than a few disease organisms, and all of them were apt to have dangerous toxic effects on human tissues...
Chiefly concerned are isotopes of elements which the thyroid, especially in cases of toxic goiter, has the property of absorbing and concentrating at the afflicted portion of the gland. This process enables the radiation emitted by the radioactive isotopes to destroy harmful growths. Other elements which do not become concentrated in the body as iodine does, may be used in research on body chemistry, since by their effect on a Geiger counter, their progress through the body may be traced--thus they are termed "tracer elements...