TY - JOUR T1 - Poisoning: A guide to clinical diagnosis and treatment AU - WHEELER WE Y1 - 1959/02/01 N1 - 10.1001/archpedi.1959.02070010254025 JO - A.M.A. Journal of Diseases of Children SP - 252 EP - 252 VL - 97 IS - 2 N2 - The second edition of this standard work on poisoning will be of greatest usefulness to the industrial physician called on to treat acute poisoning with known modern chemicals. A rather encyclopedic discussion of the various poisons which may cause individual symptoms would appear to be of doubtful usefulness except in the rare instance of poisonings due to unknown substances. The section on qualitative confirmatory laboratory tests for many items appears to be excellent.The book is clearly not designed for and will not be of much help in the treatment of accidental poisonings in childhood, where the vast majority of such poisonings occur. There is no attempt made to indicate the poisonous contents of common household articles or even of classes of household articles. The brief description of symptoms and treatment of poisoning due to individual substances is weakened by the general failure to indicate lethal doses or order of SN - 0096-6916 M3 - doi: 10.1001/archpedi.1959.02070010254025 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1959.02070010254025 ER -