N. A. Yurman. A case of psychosis due to poisoning with cesspool gases. - Russian. Doctor, 1910 № 16

Abstract

A description of the disease under the influence of inhalation of gases during a stay in the Chambot pit is given, with a predominance of phenomena from the neuropsychic sphere. After an unconscious state, the patient experienced extreme depression, with the impossibility of walking without outside help. The latter is probably the result of paralytic phenomena. In this case, the author explains the disease by poisoning with coal gas in connection with other gases (ammonia, etc.).

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Приводится описаніе заболѣванія подъ вліяніемъ вдыханія газовъ во время пребыванія въ ямѣ Chambot, съ преобладаніемъ явленій со стороны нервно-психической сферы. Послѣ безсознательнаго состоянія наступило у больного крайнее угнетеніе, при невозможности ходить безъ посторонней помощи. Послѣднее, вѣроятно, результатъ паралитическихъ явленій. Въ данномъ случаѣ заболѣваніе авторъ объясняетъ отравленіемъ угольнымъ газомъ въ связи съ другими газами (амміакъ и др.).