50 Poisonous Questions: A Book with Bite by T. L. Kyi

Living With Poisonous Plants

The word POISON too often creates fear when it should suggest a warning. Many chemicals or common household substances used incorrectly, usually in the wrong quantity, can cause illness or even death; this is also true with certain plants. Left alone they are harmless. Bruised, crushed, or eaten in varying quantities, they may provoke effects which are upsetting, painful, or even fatal to man.

Bite from a Snake Said to Have Been Poisonous; Liquor Ammoniæ Treatment; Recovery

was easily swallowed, and the patient soon after opened his eyes and began to talk. A further dose of fifteen minims was given a quarter of an hour after the first. I saw him half an hour after he received the bite. He was then quite conscious, pulse 84, and there was evidently nothing the matter with him. The marks of a fresh snake bite were quite distinct on the point of the right big toe. A ...

A place for T(L,NO) with T(L,CO)?

I n 1915, KROGH [1] first measured the diffusion of carbon monoxide to demonstrate that oxygen passively diffused from the alveolus to pulmonary capillary blood. The history review by HUGHES and BATES [2] discusses this excellently. Subsequently, in 1957, ROUGHTON and FORSTER [3] demonstrated that CO diffusion measured by the diffusing capacity of the lung for CO (DL,CO) reflected both alveolar...

The Hospitals Year Book, 1949-50

Rhabdomyolysis and acute renal failure after poisonous snake (Agkistrodon halys blomhoffii) bite.