Abstract
To the Editor: —The recent deaths of three infants by the accidental use of boric acid in a New York Hospital recalls six similar accidents in a Chicago hospital in 1927 (McNally, W. D., and Rust, C. A.: The Distribution of Boric Acid in Human Organs in Six Deaths Due to Boric Acid Poisoning,The Journal, Feb. 4, 1928, p. 382). All these accidents occurred as the result of administering a solution of boric acid for water or saline solutions. The use of boric acid and its salts in the medical profession and in some of the economic lay industries has made them commonplace—so much so, in fact, that their power for harm through overdosage or accidental consumption has receded to the background until ordinary precaution, at times, is not used in administering these substances. The potential danger of boric acid poisoning is sufficiently great to make it imperative that
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