Arsenical Neuritis
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use of impure acids containing arsenic used for the manufacture of glucose and " invert" sugar. The number of cases amounted to over 6,000 and of deaths to at least 70. Many deaths returned as due to, "alcoholic neuritis" "alcoholism," "locomotor ataxy," &c., were probably caused by arsenical poisoning. Since the exposure of the cause of the outbreak and discontinuance of the use of impure acids the number of cases of '? alcoholic neuritis" has decreased. A curious fact recorded by the commissioners is that in towns where many cases had occurred the birth-rate
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