BROMIDE INTOXICATION FROM PROLONGED SELF MEDICATION WITH B. C. HEADACHE POWDER

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For many years medical literature has included specific case reports of innocent and unintentional intoxication from drugs. Among the drugs most often incriminated in this respect are aminopyrine and its many compounds, producing agranulocytosis, the barbiturates, producing various toxic effects, particularly from overdosage, and the bromides, either alone or mixed with acetanilid. There seems to be an increase in this type of intoxication caused, according to the Federal Trade Commission, by increased consumption of various agents designed to soothe the nerves of a population at war living in a scarcity of doctors. It is only within recent years that certain proprietary medicines have been specifically incriminated in the production of hematologic, neurologic, psychiatric, dermatologic and other pathologic manifestations in the habitual user. Such agents have included Bromo Seltzer,1Neurosine,2Pyramidon3and Sedormid.4This paper adds another popular self-medication agent, B. C. headache powder, to the list. Of

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