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1851
Pathological Anatomy of Bromine-poisoning

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Transactions of the American Medical Association, Volume 4, 1851, p.65.
 
Pathological Anatomy of Bromine-poisoning. Dr. J. N. Snell reports the case of a daguerreotypist, who committed suicide by taking an ounce of bromine, which caused death in seven and a half hours. A dissection, sixteen hours later, showed that the peritoneum was tinged a reddish yellow throughout the upper two-thirds, the parts lining the stomach, duodenum, and liver, having been highly injected. The omenta and transverse mesocolon were deeply tinged with bromine, and injected, as were the anterior surface and the lesser curvature of the stomach. The latter had ecchymosed spots, surrounded by red borders, on the posterior portion; the whole interior surface was covered with a thick black layer, resembling thick tanned leather, which readily peeled off; the lower portion was smooth, hard, and tanned, as were the valvulae conniventes, and the surfaces of the duodenum. The sulci were softened and injected.
 
[This event was widely reported in medical literature - see for example Therapeutics and Materia Media by Alfred Stille, M.D. (Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1864), Volume II, p.757-758.]
 
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