Charcoal a life-saver
(N.Z.P.A.Reuter—Copyright) LONDON. Jan. 12. A new anti-poisoning treatment making use of es-pecialjy-coated charcoal, and claimed to be more efficient than kidney machines at clearing barbiturates, has been described in the “British Medical Journal.” One of the first patients to be saved by the technique was a doctor who took 167 sleeping tablets with half a bottle of whisky, an article in the journal said. The article, by a group of doctors from Guy’s Hospital, London, said that the affected doctor, aged 31. was found in a deep coma 34 hours after taking the overdose. After the treatment, which consisted partly of filtering his blood through charcoal to remove the poison, he made a complete recovery. Four of the first six persons so far treated made complete recoveries. The two who died had their blood cleared of poison but had already suffered irreversible brain damage, the doctors said. ’
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33740, 13 January 1975, Page 6
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