Poison ivy-induced allergic contact dermatitis (ACD) is the most common environmental allergic condition in the United States. Case numbers of poison ivy ACD are increasing due to growing biomass and geographical expansion of poison ivy and increasing content of the allergen, urushiol, likely attributable to rising atmospheric CO2 Severe and treatment-resistant itch is the major complaint of af...

Were the anti-vivisectionists possessed of even a modicum of commonsense, we might venture to hope that the perusal of this book would gratify, not their morbid curiosity, but their humanity : for the descriptions given of the carefully designed experiments performed on all kinds of animals, with a view to the ultimate benefit ot the human race, might go far to convince them that vivisection is...

The Clearinghouse was originally conceived to coordinate information flow among the then few Poison Control Centers. Services were to be provided through the state health departments where complete control over the individual state's poison centers was to reside. No authority to establish or regulate centers, or to set standards for staffing and operation of centers, or to designate regional ce...

This work reports 16 plant and 7 animal species which produce poisons and 13 plant and 1 animal species, which produce antidotes, recorded in two divisions of Centre Province, Cameroon.

Inheritance powder is the name that was given to poisons, especially arsenic, that were commonly used in the 17th and early 18th centuries to hasten the death of the elderly. For most of the 17th century, arsenic was deadly but undetectable, making it nearly impossible to prove that someone had been poisoned. The first arsenic test produced a gas—hardly something that a scientist could show to ...