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DEVELOPMENT OF A CHEMOTHERAPY FOR SYSTEMIC ARSENICAL POISONING

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STUDIES by G. R. Cameron and his colleagues had O shown by 1942 that in systemic lewisite poisoning a condition prevails in the first few days which in some particulars resembles traumatic shock, being marked by hæmo concentration. It was found that administration of plasma, or of other fluids, was of no avail in reducing the mortality caused by a given dose of lewisite. It was therefore decided that the first step in the treatment of lewisite poisoning must be the inactivation of at least that part of the arsenical causing shock.

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  1. Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge

    J. F. DANIELLI, MARY DANIELLI & P. D. MITCHELL

  2. Department of Organic Chemistry, Imperial College, London

    L. N. OWEN & G. SHAW

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DANIELLI, J., DANIELLI, M., MITCHELL, P. et al. DEVELOPMENT OF A CHEMOTHERAPY FOR SYSTEMIC ARSENICAL POISONING. Nature 157, 217–218 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157217a0

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