A CASE OF POTASSIUM CHLORATE POISONING
Abstract
Damage by borrowed medicine is frequently met. The following is an instance:
May 21, 1911, I was called to see a twenty-day-old baby with the following history: The mother knew of a neighbor's having some medicine that I had prescribed about a year previous for sore mouth, borrowed it and used it in large amounts locally on the membrane of the baby's mouth, and internally. She said that the child became irritable and began to vomit. Gradually the skin became blue in color and the...