Word: toxicologists
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...announced their strange new use for atomic energy. But not until last week did they have the satisfaction of seeing the method used in a criminal investigation. A strand of Mme. Duflos' hair was irradiated in Zoé. Later, in the secrecy of the judge's chambers, Toxicologist Griffon reported the results of the test, named the date when unfortunate Mme. Duflos first swallowed a dose of arsenic...
...each case the operation had seemed successful. But within 24 hours, every one of the patients had shown the same fatal symptoms: coma, rapid loss of reflexes, and what looked like severe scorching of the tongue. After the 15th death, Head Doctor Raymond Denis uneasily consulted a Paris toxicologist. The expert put Dr. Denis' vague horror into words: "There is a criminal in your service...
...drugs simply counteract each other, explained Drs. Abraham Freireich and Joseph Landsberg, in the A.M.A. Journal. Dr. Freireich, a Long Island county toxicologist, directed the treatments which revived 19 would-be suicides with massive intravenous injections of benzedrine. (The reviving dose of benzedrine would be equally poisonous to any but a thoroughly doped victim.) Benzedrine, he also found, prevents the pneumonia which frequently follows an unsuccessful barbiturate poisoning...
...stories he never got around to writing. In a promising beginning, Wilt is introduced on a Paris street corner in mysterious talk with a big, naïve pal named Bernie, a medical student just arrived from the Midwest in hopes of meeting his hero, a famed French toxicologist. Wilt, who had met Bernie only a few hours before, offers to arrange the meeting...
...search for the toxicologist begins in a bar, where they start drinking on empty stomachs, continues via other bars, where they pick up strange stories of the toxicologist's victims. They get involved with drunks, with the toxicologist's servants, with the wife and child of a man sentenced to life imprisonment on the toxicologist's evidence. Meantime, Wilt reels off his unwritten stories, long since ignoring poor Bernie, who whimpers because Wilt won't stop to eat, because he has been seduced and because he has lost his money. Unfortunately, the comic side of this...