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Thallium poisoning is poisoning that is due to thallium and its compounds, which are often highly toxic. [1] Contact with skin is dangerous and adequate ventilation should be provided when melting this metal. [2] Many thallium compounds are highly soluble in water and are readily absorbed through the skin. [3]
Caroline Grills (née Mickelson; between 1888 and 1890 – 6 October 1960) was an Australian serial killer who poisoned her victims. She was predominantly a comfort killer, who murdered well-off members of her extended family to maintain a respectable lifestyle, but her later murders had more unclear motives.
Prussian blue, also known as potassium ferric hexacyanoferrate, is used as a medication to treat thallium poisoning or radioactive caesium poisoning. [1] [2] For thallium it may be used in addition to gastric lavage, activated charcoal, forced diuresis, and hemodialysis. [3] [4] It is given by mouth or nasogastric tube.
George James Trepal (born January 23, 1949) [1] is an American former chemist and computer programmer who was convicted in February 1991 of murdering his neighbor, Peggy Carr, and attempting to murder her family.
Silver poisoning, [30] like lithium poisoning, arises from misapplication of medications. A dramatic symptom of "argyria" is that the skin turns blue or bluish-grey. [31] Thallium poisoning has been observed on several occasions, and it is well known that thallium compounds are highly toxic. Nonetheless, incidents of thallium poisoning are few ...
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The "Dr. X" killings were a series of suspicious deaths by curare poisoning, in 1966 at a Bergen County, New Jersey hospital. [1] A newspaper investigation during the mid-1960s led to the indictment of an Argentina-born physician, Mario Enrique Jascalevich (August 27, 1927 — September 1984), in 1976.