Concerning baking soda-sodium fluoride poisonings in San Francisco.
December 13, 1935
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California and Western Medicine
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By Thomas W.B. Leland, M.D.
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44(1):657-68.
To the Editor:
You have, no doubt, read of the recent deaths in San Francisco of some persons from accidental poisoning by sodium fluoride.
These cases are more remarkable in that there is so little in our medical literature relating to their occurrence. Herzog Medical Jurisprudence mentions cases in not recent accidental and suicidal poisonings in New York and Chicago. We have, in my experience in the San Francisco coroner's office, had two deaths, suicidal, one by ant paste, a white pers