Insusceptibility of Insects to Poisons

Insusceptibility to Sensitization and Anaphylactic Shock

1. Attempts to produce anaphylactic shock in white rats by second intravenous or subdural injections of horse serum have failed. 2. It was impossible to demonstrate either by skin reactions or by the uterine reaction that white rats can be sensitized to horse serum. 3. It was not possible to sensitize guinea pigs passively with the serum of white rats presumably immunized to horse serum. 4. In ...

Snakebite enquiries to the UK National Poisons

Accepted 15 October 2012 Published Online First 13 December 2012 ABSTRACT Objective To describe trends regarding snakebite enquiries to the UK National Poisons Information Service (NPIS) from 2004 to 2010. Methods The NPIS telephone enquiry database, the UK Poisons Information Database, was interrogated for enquiries to the four NPIS units from 2004 to 2010. Search terms used were ‘snake’ and ‘...

The Sensitiveness to Poisons in Avitaminous Animals

toxicity of acetone to stored-product insects

in laboratory experiments the toxicity of acetone was investigated against four species of stored-product insects. in empty-space trials, estimates of the lethal concentrations of acetone (lc, 72-h exposure) for 50% mortality against adults of the lesser grain borer, rhizopertha dominica (f.), red flour beetle, tribolium castaneum (herbst), rice weevil, si-tophilus oryzae (l.) and eggs of the a...

Cholera and Fever Poisons