RT Journal
A1 Hudson WG
T1 ANilin, rather than nitrobenzene, as the poison in shoe dye
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD March 8
VO 72
IS 10
SP 747
OP 747
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610100055026
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610100055026
AB To the Editor: 
    —More than the usual amount of interest seems to be manifested in the cases of poisoning from shoe dye reported from Camp Johnston, and it would appear to be in the interest of our records of the effects of poisons to determine definitely just what was the poisonous agent in this case. Being connected with a company engaged for many years in the manufacture of the several substances which may here come under suspicion, I have had to give some attention to the effects as manifested in workmen. The gross appearance of the blood as described did not impress me as suggestive of poisoning by a nitro compound (nitrobenzene) but as poisoning by anilin. The effects of both of these substances are quite similar, but the nitro compounds are more likely to bring about a destruction of the red cells and cause the blood to present the