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Barium: a Cause of the Loco-Weed Disease · Albert C. Crawford — chapter 28 of 40 · ~389 words · public domain

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Barium acetate, feeding experiments on animals in laboratory, 57-62 action on farm and domestic animals, 72-74 carbonate, feeding experiments on animals in laboratory, 61, 62 rats, 71 hypodermic injection, cats, fatal results, 62 chlorid, effects on human beings, 63-65 feeding experiments with animals in laboratory, 60-62 use in veterinary therapeutics, dangers, 72-73 content of rocks in Rocky Mountains, 54 determination in ash of loco plants, 54, 55-57 discovery in loco plants, feeding experiments, 5 feeding experiments with range cattle, desirability, 71 harmful when in soluble form, 76 in brine, poisoning stock, 73 well water in England, 57 insoluble after drying loco plants, extraction with digestive ferments, 76 nitrate, feeding experiments on animals in laboratory, results, 61, 62 phosphate, analysis by Bureau of Chemistry, 69 poisoning, experimental, pathological lesions, 65 horses, sheep, and pigs, 73, 74 man, symptoms, results, 62-65 presence in certain vegetable substances, 53 salts, feeding experiments on animals in laboratory, 57-62 toxicity of different solutions, 64 relation of altitude, climate, and varying combinations, 65 use in medicine, 62-65, 72-73 sulphate, nontoxic on account of insolubility, 53

Barrows, D. P., reference to work, 35

Bary, A., references to work, 53, 59, 60

Baum, reference to work, 64

Beech, barium present, 53

Beer, Mexico, use of "crazy weed", 20

Bellisari, G., reference to work, 64

Beryllium chlorid, effect on rabbits, 50

Binet, P., reference to work, 59

Birch, barium present, 53

Birdsall, W. R., experiments with Aragallus lamberti, 20

Blankinship, J. W., references to work, 11, 34

Blood, clots on brain, 18, 26, 37, 42, 65

Boehm, R., reference to work, 58

Böhm, C. R., reference to work, 50

Bray, W. C., reference to work, 53

Brewer, W. H., reference to work, 20

Brine, barium content, producing acute poisoning in stock, 73

Brodie, B. C., reference to work, 61

Brunton, T. L., reference to work, 72

Burgassi, G., reference to work, 52

Cæsium chlorid, experiments on rabbits, 51 occurrence in plants, toxicity, 51

Calcium acetate, experiments on rabbits, 52 carbonate, antidotal to barium, 71 experiments on rabbits, 52 occurrence in loco plants, 25, 27

Cambier, J., experiments with loco plants, 26-28

Canada, disease caused by eating ragwort, 17 freedom from loco disease, 9

Cannabis sativa, supposed cause of locoed conditions in Mexico, 10

Caprioides aureum, supposed cause of loco disease, 10

Carpenter, J. S., references to work, 63, 64

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