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Concerning baking soda-sodium fluoride poisonings in San Francisco.

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

Fluorine and Fluorosis [October 1944].

Correspondence FLUORINE AND FLUOROSIS Sir, With regard to your remark 'This has led to the suggestion that non-toxic amounts of sodium fluoride. may be added to drinking water for the prevention of dental decay' in the editorial of June number 1944, I wish to draw your attention to the fact that the use of fluorine in dental treatment is in vogue already. A good account was published by Prof. E. H. Lukmsky, Director, Stomatological Clinic, First Moscow State Medical Institute (fluorine cu