Citation

No Author(s) Listed. J. Am. Med. Assoc. 1928; 90(3): 219-220.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1928, American Medical Association)

DOI

10.1001/jama.1928.02690300059028

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Suicide with a Stick of Silver NitrateIn Cariova an insane patient, aged 31, a chemist, swallowed one stick of silver nitrate with suicidal intent. He was taken to a hospital, where on the fourth day fibrous pneumonia came on, from which he died. The stomach had no cauterization but there was inflammation of the mucous membrane and also of the duodenum. Nothing abnormal was found in the rest of the intestine. The internal organs showed slight parenchymatous changes but no white coloring. Death was due to pneumonia. This might have come on accidentally, through diminished resisting power, but a direct connection between it and the poisoning was possible, as shown in experiments on animals. Poisoning with silver salts was followed by hypersecretion of the bronchial mucous membrane and paralysis of the muscles of respiration. These conditions may have been favorable to the pneumococcus.The Inhalation of Oxygen in Strychnine