The influence of sodium citrate on peristalsis

Sudden Death after Intravenous Injection of a Mercurial Diuretic

“…This action was first demonstrated with inorganic salts of mercury by Salant and Kleitman in 1922; they showed that the mercury ion was capable of inducing ventricular fibrillation, which neither bilateral vagotomy nor atropinization could alter. Salant and Brodman (1929) state that adrenaline improves the heart poisoned by mercury while ergotamine increases mercurial toxicity. The same action was demonstrated in the organic mercurial diuretics by Jackson, who in 1926 produced ventricular fibrillation in dogs with salyrgan.…”

Studies on Mercurial Diuresis

“…Both patients showed the development of ventricu¬ lar fibrillation following the drug. 6 in the anesthetized dog, such as the changes in the ST junction and the ST interval, the intraventricular con¬ duction deformity and changes in the T waves. 7.…”

The Solvent Properties of Acetone.

“…at normal pressure. 4-Acetone is inflammable, but not to as great a degree as 1 Presented before the Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry at the 64th Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Pittsburgh, Pa., September 4 to 8, 1922.…”