Word: potassium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Primitive and scientific explanations aside, by last week 16,500 inhabitants of the northwestern mountains of India had died in a cholera epidemic. Frantic sanitarians had vaccinated 600,000 persons, doused thousands of wells with germicidal potassium permanganate to halt an epidemic which began the end of April. Nonetheless, the epidemic has spread northwesterly into Afghanistan...
...medical student at Stanford. For two years he continued his research at the Rockefeller Institute, went on to the University of California. He discovered a phage of staphylococci (pus germs), showed that its inactivation by heat followed the same course as that of a protein. Poisons such as potassium cyanide and bichloride of mercury inactivated but did not kill it-in other words, like protein, it regained activity after the poison was removed. Finally Rockefeller Institute's John Howard Northrop isolated a phage, showed it to be a protein with the catalyzing properties of an enzyme. These researches convinced...
Finally it was discovered that a silver polish used in these hotels contained potassium cyanide. A minute residue of this polish on a fork or from a tea-pot spout was quite sufficient to produce severe gastro-intestinal symptoms...
...Juliet Tuttle, 65, after the deaths of three popular dogs of suburban Eastchester, N. Y. last month (TIME. May 31). But at her trial last week, other evidence darkened the picture. Found near the spot where she had approached the dogs was a capsule which had contained cyanide of potassium. A former chauffeur of hers testified he had resigned "in disgust" because she used to have him stop the car while she got out to give capsules to stray cats. When the cats keeled over she would deliver them to an S. P. C. A. shelter. "She handled as many...
...setter's plume drooped and he trotted slowly home. Police dog and collie also turned tail, as did the low-slung, swaybacked little dachshund. The setter's owner rushed him to a veterinarian, where he shortly died. Said the "vet": "Someone has given this dog cyanide of potassium...