Citation

Moore M, Alexander L, Ipsen J. New Engl. J. Med. 1952; 246(2): 46-52.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1952, Massachusetts Medical Society)

DOI

10.1056/NEJM195201102460202

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

A CONSIDERABLE number of deaths are caused annually by poisoning -- absorption of gaseous, liquid or soluble chemicals. The mortality of deaths from poisoning exceeds, at present, that of all infectious diseases together, with the exception of tuberculosis, and is clearly a public-health problem that warrants attention. The heterogeneous group of causes that is included in official reporting as "poisoning" comprises many phases of medical, epidemiologic and sociologic concern, and the information to be had from an analysis of deaths from poisoning is related to such more specific problems of public health, toxicology and medicine as suicide, accidents, alcoholism and. . .

Keywords: Suicide