This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (4)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

DANIEL C. SCHADT, M.D.; DON C. PURNELL, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1958;102(2):213-216.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

In 1919 Lewis¹ published the first report of a case of acetylsalicylic acid poisoning in an adult in the English literature. Numerous reports of cases have been published since, but these do not reflect the true incidence, for records of the United States Bureau of the Census* reveal many more cases than the professional journals. We were able to collect from the literature in English reports of 115 instances, of which 15 were fatal. In 1952 there were 115 deaths in the United States due to salicylate poisoning of all types; 86 of them occurred in children less than 5 years old, and 41 of the deaths were due to acetylsalicylic acid.³ Robin⁴ reported the case of a patient who ingested 2500 grains of acetylsalicylic acid in a suicide attempt. The patient vomited four hours later and was lavaged three hours after vomiting, and so probably not . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Rochester, Minn.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Jan. 2, 1958.

The Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minn., is a part of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota.

Fellow in Medicine, Mayo Foundation (Dr. Schadt) and Section of Medicine, Mayo Clinic (Dr. Purnell).

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?