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Allowable
Limits for Carbon
Monoxide
Carbon
Monoxide Alarms
Carbon
Monoxide Fact Sheet
Carbon
Monoxide Misconceptions
Chronic
Carbon Monoxide
Poisoning
History
of Carbon Monoxide
How
Carbon Monoxide is produced
Symptons
of CO Poisoning
Where
Carbon Monoxide Comes
From
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- "Coal fumes lead to heavy head and death" - First
mention of the lethal effects of coal fumes --- Aristotle, Greece,
3rd century B.C.
- Inhabitants of Nuceria killed by CO suffocation
in the bath --- Hannibal, Carthage, 247-183 B.C.
- Coal fumes were used for suicide and execution
--- Cicero, Rome, 106-43 B.C.; suicide of Roman author
Seneca, 65 A.D.
- A combustible gas that burned with a bright blue
flame described --- Joseph Priestley, England, 1772
- First clinical description of coal gas poisoning
--- Harmant, France, 1775
- CO identified as the toxic substance in coal
gas --- LeBlanc, France, 1842
- Shown that CO produces hypoxia by reversible
combination with hemoglobin --- Claude Bernard, France, 1857
- Demonstration that rats survive CO poisoning
when placed in oxygen at 2 atmosphers pressure --- John Scott
Haldane, England, 1895
- Polar explorer Richard Byrd nearly loses life
as result of chronic CO poisoning --- early 20th century
- 611 CO-related deaths occur in New York City
from use of illuminating gas --- 1927
- Treatment of CO poisoning with Hyperbaric Oxygen
(HBO) in experimental animals --- End & Long, U.S., 1942
- First clinical use of HBO therapy in CO poisoning
--- Smith & Sharp, 1960
- International tennis star Vitas Gerulaitus loses
life in CO accident involving a pool heater, September, 1994
- Use as euthanasia agent by medical suicide advocate,
Jack Kevorkian, M.D. --- 1990s
Note: It has been suggested based on his writings that the famous
American author, Edgar Allan Poe, was chronically poisoned by
carbon monoxide, probably contained in illuminating gas. Poe died
November 17, 1875, 32 years of age.
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