Three Cases of Acute Mania from Inhaling Carbon Bisulphide

Abstract

Poisoning by bisulphide of carbon, though of late years an infrequent malady, owing to the precautions taken in most rubber factories to ventilate well the rooms in which this chemical is used, is still met with at times in factories where ventilation is neglected.Carbon bisulphide, as is well known, is a sort of volatile anaisthetic when inhaled.It also acts as a local amesthetic when applied to the skin.In those