The first step is to realise "13-11-26" is the number for the Poison's Hotline, the Victorian branch of which runs out of Austin Health via the Victorian Poisons Information Centre. They operate and issue the Austin Health Clinical Toxicology Guidelines, the individual pages of which resemble the teal-coloured table of this puzzle!
To solve the puzzle, we identify the first column of numbers as elementary atomic numbers, which we can translate to atomic symbols. For example, the first set "56-17-8-26-7" translates to "Ba-Cl-O-Fe-N".
Now we turn to the Clinical Toxicology Guideline page for "baclofen". The first pair of numbers in the top row of the second column is "2-7". Taking the 2nd word in the byline of the CTG page ("prolonged") and then the 7th letter gives G. (The clue to take the byline is the "??-??" where the byline is in the puzzle.) Doing this for the other three pairs spell "G-O-L-D", the atomic symbol of which is "Au".
Persisting in this fashion for all the other rows gives:
| First column (atomic number to symbol) | Second column (book code from CTG page) | Elemental symbol |
|---|---|---|
| BA-CL-O-Fe-N | G O L D | Au |
| O-P-I-O-Ds | S U L F U R | S |
| O-Rg-P-H-Os-P-H-At-Es | T I T A N I U M | Ti |
| K-Cl | N I T R O G E N | N |
| Ca-F-Fe-I-Ne | P O L O N I U M | Po |
| O-Rg-Hg (organic mercury) | T U N G S T E N | W |
| D-O-Ac-S | E R B I U M | Er |
| Eu-C-Al-Y-Pt-U-S | S U L F U R | S |
The elemental symbols spell AUSTIN POWERS, the solution of this puzzle.
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Guess log
| Guess | Frequency |
|---|---|
| AUSTINPOWERS | 61 |
| POISON | 4 |
| AUSTINPOWER | 3 |
| BOOKCODE | 3 |
| POISONS | 3 |
| POISONSINFORMATIONCENTRE | 3 |
| AUSTINPOISON | 2 |
| MDSC | 2 |
| UTUUBH | 2 |
| A | 1 |
| ABCD | 1 |
| ALNAFE | 1 |
| ANTICONVULSANT | 1 |
| ANTIDEPRESSANT | 1 |
| ANTIVENOM | 1 |
| AUHE | 1 |
| AUSTIN | 1 |
| AUSTINCLINICALTOXICOLOGYSERVICEGUIDELINE | 1 |
| AUSTINPOWERES | 1 |
| AUSTINPOWERSITSMIDNIGHTALLENTHISBETTERBERIGHT | 1 |
| AUTINPOWER | 1 |
| AV | 1 |
| BACLOFEN | 1 |
| BOOK | 1 |
| CHLOROFORM | 1 |
| COCCID | 1 |
| DIRECTACTING | 1 |
| DMPS | 1 |
| ELECTRONICTHERAPEUTICGUIDELINES | 1 |
| ELEMENT | 1 |
| ELEMENTARY | 1 |
| ELEMENTS | 1 |
| ETG | 1 |
| HGQUICKSILVER | 1 |
| INHERIT | 1 |
| IODINEANTIMONY | 1 |
| ISB | 1 |
| LINE | 1 |
| MERCURYELEMENTAL | 1 |
| METAL | 1 |
| METALS | 1 |
| MINIME | 1 |
| NACETYLCYSTEINE | 1 |
| NBHE | 1 |
| NONE | 1 |
| OCTREOTIDE | 1 |
| SHERLOCKHOLMES | 1 |
| SOMATOSTATIN | 1 |
| SUMMARY | 1 |
| SYMPTOM | 1 |
| SYMPTOMS | 1 |
| THERAPEUTICGUIDELINES | 1 |