Word: toxication
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Colonel O. L. Spaulding, Professor of Military Science and Tactics, reiterated his belief in the effectiveness and impermanence of disabilities caused by gases. "There is no reason to believe that toxic gases are any more inhuman than other methods of warfare, although according to the Washington Conference, there are articles especially designed against their use. Lachrymators such as xylyl bromide, and the common tear gases never cause a fatality, but completely disable all combatants. Tear gas forces men to close their eyes and causes irritation sufficient to make an army unfit for service...
Glutathione. At the National Institute of Health, Pharmacologist Director Carl Voegtlin & associates observed that an organic sulphur compound, glutathione, present in all living body cells, is concerned with the body's defense against the toxic action of arsenic and certain other poisons. Glutathione occurs in large quantities in cancer cells. It occurred to Professor Voegtlin and Dr. Harold W. Chalkley, an associate, that glutathione might be a contributing cause of cancer. Forthwith they immersed amoebae (single- celled animalcules) in a glutathione solu-tion.* The amoebae reproduced themselves by subdivision (as all cells do) with extraordinary ease, confirming the Voegt...
...Toxic products from disorder of intestinal digestion or other self-made poisons. 2) Spasms of arteries. 3) Trouble in the eyes, nose or sexual organs. 4) Increased pressure in the cerebro-spinal fluids. 5) Disturbance of the sympathetic nervous system...
...color of the eye had been caused by pigmentation, as pigmentation cannot be altered. All babies are born with a bluish colored eye, and when they turn green, gray, brown, hazel or some other color, it is not an accident, but indicates an inherited or acquired toxic condition...
...some with their forearms and thighs pockmarked with infected needle-sores; some sent to the narcotic ward by prison authorities, some self-committed in an attempt to get rid of their addiction-took the narcosan treatment. The solution is injected with a hypodermic syringe. The lipoids in narcosan neutralize toxic substances. The proteins stimulate new blood formation. This, at all events, is the theory of the way in which it works. The facts of its effect are simpler. In 24 hours the addicts were able to sleep normally. In 72 hours they stopped asking for drugs. Their appetite for food...