Professional paper
A fatal case of oral intoxication by mustard gas
B. Volarić
; Zavod za sudsku medicinu i kriminalistiku Medicinskog fakulteta, Zagreb
Abstract
A case is presented of a man aged 27 who swallowed 50 g of mustard gas (dichlor-diethylsulphide) in order to commit suicide. Although immediately treated at the Internal Clinic of the Medical Faculty, he died 8 hours and 20 minutes after taking the poison. A postmortem examination carried out 19 hours after death, as well as histological findings showed congestion and oedema of the brain, fragmentation of cardiac muscle, oedema of mucous membranes of the upper part of gastrointestinal tract, oedema of larynx and epiglotis, oedema of the liver, and congestion of the spleen, adrenal glands, and kidneys. A microscopic examination of the lung tissue revealed hemorrhages probably due to the irritative effect of the poison.
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186197
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Publication date:
26.3.1956.
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