The exhibition title, «LD50,» derives from the technical term «
median lethal dose» used by toxicologists to refer to the dose required to kill half, 50 %, of a tested population.
Understand that
the median lethal dose of theobromine in dogs is currently formulated at 300 milligrams per kilogram of the dog's body weight.
For example, if your dog weighs 20 pounds, then that means
its median lethal dose will be 6,000 milligrams or about 6 grams.
The median lethal dose of endotoxin in mice pretreated with 50 microliters of the specific antiserum was approximately 2.5 times greater
the median lethal dose for controls given nonimmune serum.