Word: toxication
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Dreadful Poison. Plutonium must be handled as if it were thousands of times more toxic than the deadliest poison, which it is: it is strongly radioactive, and if a microscopic amount of it gets into the human body it causes dreadful damage. Exposed to air, it oxidizes quickly, and the oxide floats off as a deadly, impalpable dust. If it is machined in air, the shavings burst spontaneously into flame, giving off clouds of deadly smoke...
Died. Henri Béraud, 73, French writer, toxic reactionary, anti-democrat, antiMason, anti-Semite, Anglophobe, 1922 winner of the Prix Goncourt for The Martyrdom of the Obese, a novel; on the island of Ile de Ré, France. Author of a 1935 essay entitled Should England Be Reduced to Slavery?* Béraud was a principal contributor to the mixed-up weekly newspaper Gringoire, went right on pouring out his enmity toward both Britain and the Free French-as well as the Nazis -during World War II. Tried after the liberation for collaborating in word if not in deed...
...University is ferreting out illegal toxic gas and open unit refrigerators as part of its semi-yearly inspection of all student rooms...
...cancer patients who might be able to take higher and more curative doses of radiation.) Other snags: AET must be taken at least 15 minutes before exposure to radiation, gives full protection for only about an hour. It may take years to find related chemicals that will be less toxic and give greater protection for longer periods...
Though U.S. narcotics addiction is rising, physicians are still often unprepared for one poignant aspect: the newborn babies of addicted women. If the mother's dosage has been recent, her baby suffers drastic toxic effects, and often dies. The infant's symptoms resemble those of agonized adult withdrawal: convulsions, no appetite, bluish pallor, heavy sweating, endless, high-pitched crying. Since a pregnant woman addict may look quite normal-and rarely reveals her habit-the doctor is likely at first to suspect other ailments with similar symptoms, e.g., calcium deficiency. Proper treatment may be too late to prevent fatal...