"POISON IN THE NURSERY."

Poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac.

Searching for a Poison in a Poison

chlorinated biphenyl (PC8I mixtures had been described previously. High mortality, liver damage, and edema were associated with only two of the three PCB5. Using column and gas chromatography, several compounds were identified in the diethylether fracdon of these two PCBs. A chick embryo assay confirmed the high toxicity of this fraction. Mass spectremetric and microcoulometric analyses indicat...

Poison Romance and Poison Mysteries

Psychology in the Nursery School

This book has been written by an ardent Freudian. The word "Psychoanalytical" is scattered over every page. Some very ordinary actions of the nursery school age are distorted by this obsession, especially in the chapter on "Erotically Tinged Friendships." To give one example. A girl is cutting off a boy's hair with scissors. "The passive behaviour of the boy showed he was sacrificing his mascul...

Rowlandson's Death in the Nursery.

"At a Christening at Beddington Surrey," said the Gentleman's Magazine of Sunday 4 December 1748, "the nurse was so intoxicated, that after she had undress'd the child, instead of laying it in the cradle, she put it behind a large fire, which burnt it to death in a few minutes.-She was examined before a Magistrate, and said she was quite stupid and senseless, so that she took the child for a lo...