Word: toxication
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...easy. Roskin started by testing the effect of serum from cancerous mice on the sensitive paramecium, a single-celled protozoan.* The serum had no effect. But when it was inactivated by freezing, and then mixed in carefully measured proportions with healthy guinea-pig serum, the mixture developed a toxic factor which killed paramecia...
...streptomycin also had some failures. Against typhoid fever, undulant fever and Salmonella (certain kinds of food poisoning), streptomycin showed "no dramatic results." The drug is also mildly toxic in doses above one gram a day: 20% of the patients treated had headaches, fever, skin rashes or dizziness...
...Biological warfare," writes Merck with detachment, "may be defined as the use of bacteria, fungi, viruses, rickettsias (e.g., typhus fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever), and toxic agents derived from living organisms. . . to produce death or disease in men, animals or plants." Under this broad directive, the scientists went to work...
...course, you didn't mean that the poor mother received transfusions of pure hemoglobin, which would have been toxic if not fatal. Mrs. Wenger probably received whole blood to build up her hemoglobin level...
...Department of Agriculture added a reassuring word: the danger of handling DDT has been greatly exaggerated. It is less toxic than other insecticides (arsenate of lead, nicotine), in two years has not injured any of the thousands of workers who have handled it constantly...