ACUTE BARBITAL (VERONAL) POISONING

10 February 1923

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA

Vol. 80 (6) , 373-374
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1923.02640330009003

Abstract

Acute poisoning from barbital is apparently becoming more common in this country. This is probably due to the fact that the drug is so easily obtained without a physician's prescription. It is also due to the increase in the number of persons who seek hypnotic drugs in order to procure sleep; for it seems that the symptom of insomnia is becoming more common among all classes of our population. That serious symptoms may arise from overdosage or prolonged use of barbital does not seem to be generally recognized even by the profession, but that this is so is attested by the cases reported in recent medical literature by Littell,¹Hassin and Wein,²Taub³and Macleod.⁴Boenheim⁵states that, in a series of 286 cases of acute poisoning observed in Sick's service at Stuttgart in thirteen years, barbital was the drug taken in 5.7 per cent.

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