Two cases of poisoning by the respiration of carbonic acid gas / [John Davidson].

  • Davidson, John
Date:
[1847]
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Credit: Two cases of poisoning by the respiration of carbonic acid gas / [John Davidson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TWO CASES OF POISONING BY THE RESPIRATION OFCARBONIC ACID GAS, WITH A FATAL ISSUE IN ONE, AND RECOVERY IN THE OTHER. By JOHN DAVIDSON, M.D.Eb., CORSTORPHINE. The particulars of the two following cases appear to me not less interesting than instructive, whether we regard their practical im¬ portance, or their bearing in a medico-legal point of view. W. IT—,aged 23, and A. M—,aged 24, both gardeners in the em¬ ployment of a gentleman in this neighbourhood, retired as usual to their bothy or sleeping apartment, at nine o’clock on the evening of Monday, the 16th November 1846. They had previously partaken of supper, which consisted of porridge and milk,—both were quite sober, in good health, and of robust constitution. The bothy which they occupied, was a small out-house, in a corner of the garden, having two sides formed by the garden walls ; it was only nine feet square, with a sloping roof, descending so low as to be less than six feet from the floor. There were five small windows in the room, all perfectly air-tight, the largest of which, the only one that could he opened, consisted of only four small panes of glass. The door also fitted very closely. There wras no regular fire-place in this small room, which wras heated by means of a stove during the winter. The stove was lighted that afternoon at 4 o’clock, and no more fresh coals were added ; the fire did not burn very quickly, and seldom or never required to be mended. The stove, in general, smoked for some time after a fire was made; it had been lighted °niy twice this season, the previous occasion being about a fortnight before. SUTHERLAND AND KNOX, PRINTERS, 38, PRINCES STREET, EDINBURGH.