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...after a heavy meal. . . . She immediately had a severe generalized convulsion with opisthotonos [body arched], trismus [lockjaw], risus sardonicus [a taut, toothy grin], complete extension of the extremities, and cyanosis [purpling of the skin and mucous membrane]. . . . She was given 81 grains (0.55 gm.) of sodium amytal intravenously. The convulsion stopped and the patient relaxed completely and went to sleep. . . . On the third day she was normal and was released from the hospital. This is the first case of strychnine poisoning treated with sodium amytal...
...cause of strychnine poisoning Is the chocolate or sugar coated pill kept in the bathroom cabinet as a laxative or "tonic." Children eat the pills for candy, die in convulsions. In the current Journal of the A. M. A. the Indianapolis clinicians give specific instructions for intravenous administration of sodium amytal, sodium pentobarbital or phenobarbital sodium. They note, as have other investigators, that the antidotes themselves are poisonous in large doses. Specific antidote for their poisoning is strychnine...
...Sodium thiosulphate, a drug used externally for ringworm, internally to reduce blood pressure, seems to have similar power. In Buenos Aires last year Dr. A. Buzzo saved four cyanide cases by intravenous injections of sodium thiosulphate and adrenalin...
...duodenum, eleven inches long, is the beginning of the long small intestine. Here enter juices from the gall-bladder and pancreas. Those juices with the help of the duodenum's own alkaline secretions (mainly sodium bicarbonate), reduce the sour chyme's acidity. While this chemistry is going on, the duodenum pumps the mix forward into the next section of the intestine, the 8 ft. jejunum. During passage through the jejunum the alkalinization of the chyme ordinarily completes itself. The chyme becomes chyle, a creamy, nourishing substance which, while welling through more yardage of intestine, passes into the blood...
...similar new plastic reported last week from Yardville, N. J. is "thiokol," product of ethylene dichloride and sodium polysulfide. Inventor is Dr. Joseph C. Patrick...