Citation

No Author(s) Listed. Buffalo medical and surgical journal 1882; 21(7): 319-320.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1882)

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PMID

36664240

PMCID

PMC9423345

Abstract

The use of chlorate of potash as a household remedy, especially for children, is so common, that it is well to note the somewhat frequent occurrence of the fatal effect of overdoses of this drug. Dr. Satlow, of Leipzig, reports the case of a boy fifteen and a half years old, convalescent from diphtheria, who was attacked with symptoms of poisoning after swallowing a solution of chlorate of potash and water amounting to from twenty-five to thirty grammes of the salt. On the night of December 24th, after drinking the mixture, he was seized with frequent vomiting of dark green masses very similar to thin faecal discharges; at midnight a small quantity of dark urine was passed ; at daybreak the patient was noticed to be jaundiced. December 25th, 9 A. M., the temperature was 370 C.; pulse 124, weak; respirations 40. Skin cyanotic; lungs normal; heart sounds normal, excepting that the first sound was somewhat prolonged; some epigastric tenderness; liver enlarged and palpation both in this region and over the spleen, which was also enlarged, caused great pain. There was suppression of urine, none having been excreted since...

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