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But quite recently Dr. Brooks has been successful in applying the same antidote to cases of carbon monoxide poisoning, the mechanism of which is not un- like that of cyanide poisoning. Carbon monoxide has an affinity for the respiratory pigment some hundreds of times greater than has oxygen, and conse quently, given a chance, takes its Hong Kong, Monday, March 22, 1937. place and causes asphyxiation by

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depriving the body of that life- sustaining gas. The promptness with which the dye solution may be applied in the case of a person gassed with carbon mon offers an antidote superior to the The South African mine gas old method of causing the sing incident lends special inter-patient to inhale a mixture of est to a new line of research, the

carbon dioxide. It results of which have recently might be worth while having the been revealed. A scientific work dye accessible in on works and er, Matilda M. Brooks, of the Uni-other place where carbon-mono- versity of California, discovered, ide poison

is likely to occur. in 1932, a simple and very effi- As is well known CO. as the cient antidote for use in cases of chemist calls it, is the poisonous cyanide poisoning. Hydrocyanic gas which escapes by the ex acid, or more familialy, Prussic haust of a Lotor engine and is acid, is well known to be among

the noxious agent in coal gas

the most deadly and rapid poi-poisoning. The tragedy repo sons, one of those which, like this week-end of hundreds carbon monoxide, acts on the red men poisoned and many lilled pigment in the blood in such a a South

African mine by gas way as to prevent its carrying Poisoning is apparently a case in out its function of conveying potat

oxygen to the tissues of the Lives might have been saved body. Since the deprivation of if the knowledge and the dye had oxygen even for a single minute been available, and the pure dry results in irreversible damage to dye dissolved in distilled water living animal tissues, asphyxia-used in a one per cent. solution. tion and death rapidly follow the It is probable, however that the absorption of cyanide Cyanides gas in the pit which caused the are commonly used in gold min-disaster was neither cyanide not ing and other bridustrial pro-carbon monoxide, but carbon cesses, in sprays and for fumiga dioxide, which in very high con- tion as insecticides, so that the centration is also poisonous and possibility of cyanide poisoning which the methylene remedy by accident is not

is not known to be applicable remote

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