VALUE OF VITAMIN B1 IN ACUTE POISONING BY CYANIDES

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• Document Release Date: September 7, 2011
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• Publication Date: April 27, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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LANGUAGE
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Scientific - Toxicology, vitamins
HOW
PUBLISHED , monthly periodical
WHERE
PUBLISHED Moscow
DATE
PUBLISHED May 1948
CLASSIFICATION SECRET SECRET
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY C REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1948
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Farmakologiya i Toksikologiya, Vol XI, No 5, 1948.
VALUE OF VITAMIN Bt IN ACUTE POISONING BY CYANIDES
The author injected thiamine in dogs which were given lethal doses
of potassium cyanide. In one series of tests, one milligram per kilo-
gram weight of thiamine was intravenously and subcutaneously injected
3 minutes and 10 minutes, respectively, prior to intravenous injections
of 3 milligrams per kilogram weight of potassium cyanide in these dogs.
No fatal results occurred in these tests.
Intravenous injection of 1-2 milligrams per kilogram weight of thia-
mine one minute after the injection of 3 milligrams per kilogram weight
potassium cyanide prevented death in two out of five cases.
Thus, the beneficial activity of vitamin B1 in severe poisoning by
cyanides is successfully established.
It is recommended that this vitamin be made available to those
people who are exposed to the danger of cyanide poisoning.
STATE
ARMY
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