“…2-Fluoroethanol was first synthesized by Swarts (1914), but there was no report of its toxicity until its use as a rodenticide was patented in 1935 in Germany (Schrader, 1935). 2-Fluoroethanol has about the same toxicity as fluoroacetate to the rat and its structural relationship to this compound makes it likely that it is toxic for the same reason, namely as a substrate for a lethal synthesis of fluorocitrate (McCombie & Saunders, 1946;Saunders, Stacy & Wilding, 1949;Peters, 1952;Bartlett, D. H. TREBLE 1952;Pattison, Howell, McNamara, Schneider & Walker, 1956).…”