Methyl Chloride Poisoning

Methyl chloride poisoning in four members of a family.

Accidental methyl chloride poisoning caused by gas leakage from a refrigerator through a ruptured rubber connecting tube occurred in four members of a family. All the patients had symptoms of central nervous system and kidney damage, while in three of them jaundice was observed. The outcome of the intoxication was good in all cases. Methyl chloride poisoning was first described by Gerbis in 191...

Acute Methyl Alcohol Poisoning

Dec. 7, 1934, the coroner's office of Multnomah County, Ore., was he ^,t called on to investigate the death of a man who died from so-called s J' denatured or "dehorn" alcohol poisoning. The death of this man was followed in dramatic and rapid succession by the deaths of twenty-one oth ers in the two succeeding days. All of these victims were known to law enforcement officers as having an addic...

Fatal methyl bromide poisoning.

Methyl bromide was commonly used in fire extinguishers in aircraft engines and in submarines during the second world war. Now it is widely used as a fumigant insecticide in grain stores.' 2 Mortality after intoxication by methyl bromide vapour may be high,' and is often associated with convulsions, usually resistant to standard anticonvulsant chemotherapy.' s We wish to draw attention to the co...

[Methyl alcohol poisoning].

Methyl iodide poisoning.