Category: Science - Chemistry/Biochemistry

Barium: A Cause of the Loco-Weed Disease

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5. Part 5

[144] Maisch, J. M. Poisonous Species of Astragalus. Amer. Journ. Pharm., vol. 51, p. 240. 1879.--Fleurot. Chimiques et Pharmaceutiques sur la Racines d'Astragale sans Tiges. Jo...

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The rabbits showing the chronic effects of these plants exhibit symptoms which have a marked parallelism with those reported as occurring in larger herbivora (horses and cattle)...

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Hillebrand[182] has called attention to the fact that the igneous rocks of the Rocky Mountains showed a higher percentage of barium than rock from other portions of the United S...

8. Part 8

One gram of the barium carbonate killed a dog in eight hours. A second dog died in fifteen hours. Both of these animals vomited so that a portion of this must have been lost.[20...

3. Part 3

In 1876 a specimen of _Aragallus lamberti_ was sent from Colorado to Professor Prescott, of the University of Michigan, under the name of "crazy weed," with the statement that i...

4. Part 4

After only five injections one of the rabbits died, and the post-mortem showed to a nicety the congestion of the whole tract of the vena portæ and the anæmia of the brain. I put...

9. Part 9

Of the same dried _Astragalus missouriensis_ 200 grams were extracted with water and the extract treated with lead carbonate to remove any possible free sulphates and after filt...

2. Part 2

All of Nockolds's animals, however, were constipated and the stools were covered with mucus.[31] The dependent portions of the body may swell, simply as an expression of the anæ...

1. Part 1

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10. Part 10

Animals, carnivorous and herbivorous, varying immunity to loco disease, 23 domestic, barium poisoning, effects, 72 experiments with barium salts in laboratory, 57-62 farm, bariu...

11. Part 11

Rabbits, autopsies after barium poisoning, 57-61, 67 loco poisoning, 30, 34, 36-43 barium salts, feeding experiments, 57-62 chemicals in aqueous solutions, feeding experiments,...