TY  - JOUR
T1  - REcovery from cyanide poisoning
Y1  - 1949/06/11
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1949.02900410037010
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 541
EP  - 541
VL  - 140
IS  - 6
N2  - The annual number of reported deaths from cyanide poisoning in the United States since 1909 has varied from 79 to 245. Cyanide poisoning is commonly believed to be always fatal. Actually 22 cases of recovery after ingestion of sodium or potassium cyanide have been reported in the American, English and French literature. Additional cases of recovery from poisoning by cyanide from routes other than ingestion, including a number in which silver polish was supposed to have been the toxic agent, have also been recorded. As a rule, the exact quantity that has entered the body is difficult to ascertain. The patient's testimony is obviously unreliable, and seldom is there an adequate determination of the content of cyanide in the patient's blood or urine.Liebowitz and Schwartz1 have recently recorded the case of a chemist who was admitted to the hospital one hour after ingestion of potassium cyanide in a
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1949.02900410037010
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900410037010
ER  -