Tetanus; Chloretone Poisoning; Recovery; followed by Polyneuritis.

A Case of Tetanus Treated by Chloretone

Polyneuritis cranialis associated with industrial trichloroethylene poisoning.

Trichloroethylene came into wide use as a solvent and degreasing agent during the First World War, and in 1915 the first cases of cranial nerve damage in workers exposed to this substance were reported. Further reports followed and it was suggested that the toxic agent was a contaminant (Defalque, 1961; Browning, 1965). Jackson (1934) published an account ofthe anaesthetic properties of trichlo...

Poisoning by Datura (Stramonium)— Recovery

partaken of a quantity of datura leaves, prepared in the form of curry, with rice, which he afterwards acknowledged to have voluntarily taken. On admission, he lay perfectly unconscious, with severe spasmodic muscular twitchings and stertorous breathing. Skin cool; pulse about 108?, feeble. Pupils dilated and insensible to the effects of light. The stomach pump was immediately introduced, but d...

Fracture and Wound of the Leg Followed by Tetanus

Ex-Surgeon-Superintendent of the Emigrant-ship " Canada Jankie, a Hindoo girl, aged 18 years, was admitted on the 9th July with fracture of both bones of the right leg and a lacerated wound at the posterior part of the ankle.' The accident was caused by a fall from the top of the ladder on to the 'tween deck-?a height of about 12 feet?whilst going down below during a heavy squall in the Bay of ...

Toxic polyneuritis in Bombay due to ortho-cresyl-phosphate poisoning.