In the Indian Medical Gazette of the 1st June last, I raised the question whether, although the poison of serpents might he swallowed into the stomach ?with impunity,?the milk of an animal that had been hitten would be equally innocuous ? I adduced the evidence of two intelligent, trustworthy natives of Calcutta, which appeared to shew that such milk could not be swallowed with impunity. An ins...

Are you a chocoholic? If the answer is "Yes" then you are far from being alone. Aside from the weighty issue of rising poundage, there is also a more pertinent issue for sufferers of chronic pain. There appear to be 2 sides to this story and I really cannot say which is the more accurate: it may well be a case of "suck it and see"" The "for" argument goes some...

The material was scraped off an arrow head removed from a wounded man. It was a moist earthy-looking material. An oleaginous resinous body was extracted which was soluble in alcohol (90 per cent.) and dilute acetic acid, also in ether and in chloroform, but insoluble in water. It gave the " croton oil reaction" on the tongue and in the pharynx. A little rubbed on the skin of forearm raised a cr...

Acute manifestations of Organophosphate Compound (OPC) poison are due to effect cholinergic excess. Others are intermediate syndrome [IMS], organophosphate induced delayed neuropathy [OPIND] and chronic organophosphate induced neuropsychiatric disorder [COPIND]. All these manifestation have specific period of occurrence and duration. There are very sparse reports of toxic demylination due to OP...

Introduction CPC provides the 24/7/365 poison hotline for the entire state of North Carolina and currently handles approximately 80,000 calls per year. CPC consultation services that assist callers with poison exposure, diagnosis, optimal patient management, therapy, and patient disposition guidance remain indispensable to the public and health care providers. Poison control center data have be...

By Surgeon W. E. Saunders, a.m.d. ( Continued, from page 97.) V. Modes of Spread.?Having decided that a specific poison is necessary to cause enteric fever, we must now review the different modes in which the disease is transmitted and disseminated. The virulent part of the specific poison, by which the disease is communicated, is admitted by most persons to be contained in the diarrhoeal disch...

Children younger than 5 are at greatest risk for unintentional poisonings. Children in low-income situations are particularly vulnerable for exposures to potential poisons. Focus groups were conducted at a Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program located in a large urban public hospital in New York City to gain information from low-income parents of young children about real and perceived bar...