Word: toxication
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...last week from inveterate conners of the Journal of the American Medical Association that pure clay, kaolin, kept in motion with fluids, is beneficial in Asiatic cholera, bacillary dysentery, chronic ulcerative colitis and acute enteritis. In some cases the clay carries away intestinal bacteria, in others mixes with their toxic products. The Journal warns inexact thinkers that many other supposedly beneficial effects of clay-eating are spurious...
Goiter Germ? Last week a modest man spoke diffidently before the Toledo, Ohio, Academy of Medicine. He was Dr. Andre Crotti of Columbus, Ohio, who cautiously explained that after twelve years' research, he had isolated a minute organism constantly found in non-toxic goiter. He had never seen anything like it before; no one had ever described it; injected into a dog it had caused goiter. Lacking experimental facilities, he suggested that others carry on his research; perhaps he had found a cause of goiter other than the well-known lack of iodine...
...Reid Hospital in Washington that he has in large measure recovered from the illness which forced him to return home from Chile, where he headed the Taena-Arica plebiscite commission. Following the extraction of his teeth, his blood pressure has fallen from 185 to 140 or 145 and the toxic poisoning has been reduced...
...termed a "tendency." Now tendencies have a forbidding sound about them. Somehow they seem sinister. One speaks of the husband of one's neighbor as having a tendency to drink too much. It was a tendency in the Borgia family to fortify their enemy's Chianti with toxic drops. Yet giving money to beggars is not described as a tendency. It is a form of personal advertising, and becomes a tendency only when the advertiser performs it to such an extent that his family have him removed to the hospital on the grounds that the fractional balance...
Safety First campaigns and horrible examples have informed all except those who will not learn that one of the products of imperfect combustion in the cylinders of a gasoline engine is carbon monoxide, a gas toxic and often fatal-in sufficient concentration-to human beings. Engines running in closed garages have been the cause of a rapidly increasing death list in recent years. The building of large vehicular tunnels, which are difficult to ventilate, has multiplied the danger. Only a fortnight ago, in the new Liberty Tunnels, Pittsburgh (TIME, Feb. 4), many persons were overcome on account of the high...