TY - JOUR T1 - ANilin, rather than nitrobenzene, as the poison in shoe dye AU - Hudson WG Y1 - 1919/03/08 N1 - 10.1001/jama.1919.02610100055026 JO - Journal of the American Medical Association SP - 747 EP - 747 VL - 72 IS - 10 N2 - 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 SN - 0002-9955 M3 - doi: 10.1001/jama.1919.02610100055026 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610100055026 ER -