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Human proof of an effective antidote for cyanide poisoning was working as an orderly in a San Francisco county hospital last week. Cuthbert Reiveley, 24, onetime medical student at the University of Michigan, drank about 15 grains of potassium of cyanide in a tumbler half full of water, at once told some friends, fell unconscious. They rushed him to an emergency hospital where Dr. Raymund Joseph Millzner was presiding. Dr. Millzner judged from Cuthbert Reiveley's blue lips and fingernails what had happened, washed out the patient's stomach with a solution of baking soda. Sure enough...
Thereupon Dr. Millzner did what theretofore' had never been done to a human being. He injected 50 c.c. of a sterile aqueous 1% solution of methylene blue into one of Cuthbert Reiveley's veins. In five minutes the moribund young man revived. Ten minutes later he wrote down, at Dr. Millzner's suggestion, his experiences: "There wasn't any sensation other than a numbness starting at the extremities and gradually, without pain, spreading. The sensation was really quite pleasant-no pain and no muscular rigidity in going under." After he received the methylene blue injection "there...
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