Abstract
A recent query inThe Journalas to the toxicity of barium carbonate1prompts the report of a case of poisoning by barium in an amount well beyond the commonly fatal dose. A woman, aged 25, a stenographer in a chemical laboratory, asked one of the chemists for a teaspoonful of salt to relieve slight gastric distress. The chemist took a bottle out of the chemical cabinet under the impression that it contained sodium and, glancing only at the -ium chloride of the label, gave her about a teaspoonful of barium chloride, which she immediately washed down with a glass of water. The peculiar taste caused the error to be discovered at once, but as the young woman felt no immediate ill effects, nothing was done at the time. After a few minutes she began to have some gastric pain, which increased to such a degree that
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