Citation

Clark A. The Chicago medical journal and examiner 1883; 47(6): 657-658.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1883)

DOI

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PMID

37618386

PMCID

PMC9873141

Abstract

So far as I know, these two cases of poisoning with illuminating gas are the only cases of this sort on record in which the treatment by the inhalation of oxygen has been resorted to. The histories of the cases, somewhat condensed frotn the written reports of the house physicians, are as follows :

Case I.--A woman, forty years old, was brought to Bellevue Hospital and admitted into my service May 30, 1882. She and her daughter had gone to bed the night before, and about noon thev were found in a state of unconsciousness, the room where they had been lying for fifteen hours being filled with illuminating gas, the odor of which they had noticed on going to bed. On recovering from her insensibility, the patient could rem ember nothing that had happend from the time of her going to bed until she regained consciousness in the hospital ward, after the lapse of 24 hours...

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