This clip is, I think, from the 1933 W.C. Fields film International House. Cab Calloway led one of the most popular big bands of the 1930s and 40s. At various times his group included such jazz greats as Dizzy Gillespie, Doc Cheatham, Ben Webster, and Chu Berry. At one point Calloway fired Dizzy from …
See Thursday’s Chicago Tribune article for the new developments in the unsolved 1982 cyanide poisonings.…
In a must-read post at the great Aussie medical blog Life in the Fast Lane, Chris Nickson gives an hilarious description of his up-close-and-personal encounter with a jellyfish in the Indian Ocean. (Both stinger and stingee seem to be doing fine.) The pictures of the wounds were enough to confirm TPR’s long-held belief that if God wanted him to go into the ocean, He would have given him enough money to afford a place in the Hamptons.
BTW, during his unfortunate episode, Nickson . . .
Today in the Guardian (U.K.), John Mullan reveals his list naming ten of the best poisonings in literature. I would have added Agatha Christie’s The Pale Horse to the list instead of — or in addition to — her Cards on the Table.…
The Washington Post has a remarkable article today about a museum in Mexico City –open to officials and graduating army cadets but not to the general public — devoted to the history of drugs, drug traffickers, and the police and military forces who wage war against them. Among the dioramas is one picturing Jesus Malverde, a highwayman known as …
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The Wellcome Trust has established a YouTube channel featuring hundreds of historic medical videos. This German demonstration of peripheral lead neuropathy from 1925 will be of particular interest to toxicologists. This condition was
The January 2010 issue of Chicago Toxcast is now online. In honor of the post-holiday season, Mark Mycyk discusses five interesting new articles on drug-induced liver disease This monthly podcast is always worth listening to, and is available as a free subscription from the iTunes store.
My only question is . . . If we can get Mycyk to say …
ACUTE BARIUM TOXICITY FROM INGESTION OF “SNAKE” FIREWORKS. Rhyee SH, Heard K. J Med Toxicol Dec 2009;5:209-213.
This very interesting case report describes a 35-year-old male nursing home patient who presented to the emergency department with vomiting and diarrhea after ingesting 16 “color snakes” and “black snakes” fireworks. He developed hypokalemia, wide-complex cardiac dysrhythmias, self-limiting episodes of ventricular tachycardia …
Well, they got the lead out. But unfortunately, as an Associated Press investigation published today discovered, some Chinese manufacturers of children’s jewelry have substituted cadmium, which the AP story calls even “more dangerous”.
During its investigation, AP reporters purchased 103 items of children’s jewelry in New York, Ohio, Texas, and California. The found that 12% of the items contained …
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