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WITH regard to the dose of nitroglycerin referred to in the notice of a book in NATURE of July 22 (p. 560), it may be useful to have the facts correctly stated. The reference was clearly to a passage in the “Extra Pharmacopœia” (sixteenth edition, vol. i., p. 527), in which I say:—“An employé in the author's laboratory (1905) ate a piece of the nitroglycerin mass weighing about 2 0z., mistaking it for ordinary chocolate. A bad headache supervened, necessitating his lying down, but he was at work again on the following day.”
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MARTINDALE, W. Non-Poisonous Character of Nitroglycerin. Nature 95, 591 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095591a0
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