Word: poisons
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...clout of barbiturate (often thiopental sodium) to put him to sleep. Then the anesthesiologist rigs the patient with a mask-or, especially for chest operations, a tube inserted through the mouth and down the windpipe. Even that is not all in many cases: an intravenous drug resembling curare (arrow poison) relaxes his muscles. Only when the anesthesiologist nods assent can the surgeon make the first cut. Any time one of his monitoring gadgets flashes a danger signal, the anesthesiologist may tell the surgeon to stop his cutting...
...three days, the exterminators had killed about 6,500 rats outright, and expected another 3,000 to die later as the poison took effect. But each female rat can theoretically produce about 70 offspring every year. Concluded one sanitation official: "What we really need is the Pied Piper of Hamelin...
...could wear it. This done, he burned alive all of Costanza's relations to ensure that he could wear it in peace. It seems certain that Costanza struck back by conspiring with Celestine III (who, like all Popes of the period, worked to undermine a strong king) to poison her husband. Heinrich recovered long enough to put dozens of plotters to death, but died a few months later of stomach cramps. Such was Frederick's infancy...
...radiologist and Roman Catholic author (Religion in the Light of Contemporary Science), who built the first device capable of taking multiple X-ray photographs of the human heart beating, and was one of the first to discover radiation's therapeutic value in the treatment of tumors; of radiation poisoning (a toxic dose, which he absorbed in his 20s, continued to poison his body until it finally caused his death); in Frankfurt...
During the three days which The Centaur spans, Caldwell lives with heightened awareness of the possibility that he might die. He feels, he tells his wife half-jokingly, "a poison snake wrapped around my bowels;" he continuously fears cancer. Hardly a speech goes by in which he does not allude, in some form, to dying...