Antifertility experiments have been made on mice for short-term and long-term observation with castor bean extract and ricin,and which showed apparent effects of antifertility.
Mrs. Driffield looked as though she had taken a dose of castor oil and had just been trying to get the taste of it out of her mouth by sucking a lemon.
The extremely powerful toxin Ricin, produced in the seeds of the castor oil plant, can kill you if you inhale even one milligram, which has made it popular for assassination attempts and biological warfare around the world.
In other times, after spending the whole day making candy animals, she had more than enough time for the children, to see from the whites of their eyes that they needed a dose of castor oil.
When the miners did get out, perhaps once a year to visit their tribe or to bury a relative, there was a whole routine of X-rays and castor oil to be gone through, and a grim future if they were caught.
当矿工真的出去时, 也许每年一次去探望他们的部落或埋葬亲戚,他们要经过一整套的 X 光检查和检查,如果他们被抓到, 前途堪忧。