FATAL POISONING BY LEAD-BENZINE

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Abstract
The histopathologic and histochemical findings in 2 fatal cases of tetra-ethyl lead poisoning are described. Both patients had worked as pressers of clothes washed in benzine. A 3d case is reported who recovered. The authors raised the question of whether tetra-ethyl lead exerts its lethal action on the nervous system through the lead combined with organic radicals, or, through its ethylic radical alone.