Word: venomous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lilly & Co.'s director of pharmacological research, last week celebrated a new triumph. In the past he showed that the Chinese shrub Ma Huang was good, ancient medicine because the ephedrine which it contains relieves congestion in cold-ridden noses and stimulates poky hearts. He showed that toad venom was good, ancient medicine because it contains unusual concentrations of cholesterol, ergosterol, bufagin, bufotoxin and bufotenine...
...leave that to the justice of history and to the judgment of God. ... I rejoice that never once have I sold Jesus Christ nor did I ever betray the brothers of Jesus Christ. Can you say as much, General Johnson?" Chiding his accuser for ''vomiting your venom on me," he declared that he disdained to use a report on the General's private life which had been presented to him by some of the onetime NRAdministrator's "fair weather friends...
...wish to correct a very serious error in your article in this week's TIME [Dec. 3] concerning antiserum against black widow spider venom. The serum has not been used on any human cases, nor would I sanction its use as so far developed. It is highly potent in the rat, 1/10 cubic centimeter (about two drops) will completely protect rats against eight average lethal doses when given immediately, and 1 cubic centimeter given three and one-half hours later will give prompt recovery against the same dose...
TIME congratulates Professor D'Amour on the progress he has made with his antiserum for black widow venom, hopes his future experiments on human beings will be as effective as he expects...
...inventing his serum, Professor D'Amour mildly poisoned rats with small doses of black widow venom. Eventually the rats became immune to the venom. Serum from the blood of the rats cured a vineyard worker three hours after a black widow...