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Could this possibly be tongue-in-cheek? … No, probably not. But surely some scientists somewhere already understood carbon monoxide, its effects and its presence in car exhaust … didn't they?
Friday, October 22, 2010
A "New Kind of Death"
An item in the "Personal and Local Mention" column of the Hobart News of January 6, 1916, described a "new kind of death" resulting from car exhaust in enclosed places. They called it "petromortis"; we, of course, call it carbon monoxide poisoning.
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Could this possibly be tongue-in-cheek? … No, probably not. But surely some scientists somewhere already understood carbon monoxide, its effects and its presence in car exhaust … didn't they?
(Click on image to enlarge)
Could this possibly be tongue-in-cheek? … No, probably not. But surely some scientists somewhere already understood carbon monoxide, its effects and its presence in car exhaust … didn't they?
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