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ACCORDING to the October issue of the Anglo–Swedish Review, medicine and technology in Sweden are collaborating in the problem of poisoning from gas–producers, with the result of the establishment of the first clinic in the north at the Sabbatsberg Hospital in Stockholm. The work is being conducted on the following lines: (1) Examination in the laboratory of specimens of blood for carbon monoxide content. Up to the present 4,300 analyses have been made. (2) A clinic of ten beds has been set up and an out–patient department where over 700 cases have been examined. (3) Physiological examinations are being made to discover the most suitable form of treatment and the proportion of chronic cases. (4) Examination of the cerebrospinal fluid in patients who have died from asphyxia is being carried out. The experiments are being made on human volunteers and on porpoises and rats.
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Gas–producer Poisoning in Sweden. Nature 148, 747 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148747b0
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