Two Cases of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning *Published by the kind permission of the Director of Medical Services in India.
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Commanding Indian Military Hospital, Pishin. About midnight lst-2ncl February, 1928, two men went to sleep in a small room (8 X J feet) in this cantonment, with the door and the window closed and a pan of steam coal burning inside. As they did not get up by 9 a.m. next day (2nd February, 1928) and noisy breathing was heard from their room, with a smell of poisonous gas emanating from the chinks, the window was broken open. Both men were found unconscious, number
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