Occupational pathogenesis of chlorine

The occupational pathogenesis of chlorine in exposed workers are described and compared with the classic pathogenesis. The exposed group consisted of 82 men with occupational exposure to chlorine.The control group consisted of 46 men who were not exposed, all of them works in the same cellulose processing factory. The exposed group had the symptoms of theclassical pathogenesis to a highly significant degree (p<0,0001) compared to the unexposed control group. We found a number of symptoms signs, disorders and syndromes which are not described in the classical pathogenesis, including: diminished tolerance to alcohol, back pain, pains in the joints dependent on weather conditions, dependent oedema, diminished taste sensitivity, persistent chronic hepatitis, hepatic steatofibrosis, chronic obstructive airways disease, polycythaemia with haemosiderosis and chronic conjunctivitis. The intensity of symptoms and signs was in direct proportion to the duration of exposure to chlorine

Recent developments concerning homoeopathic materia medica: Bhopal, was it methyl isocyanate?

The disaster that occurred on 3 December 1984 at Bhopal in India will be remembered by all. Methyl isocyanate, a poisonous gas used in the manufacture of a pesticide, is reported to have leaked from a tank at the Union Carbide factory and killed between 15,000 and 20,000 people and a number of animals (based on statements received from residents of the town). At the time of reading this paper, thousands of people are still suffering from the poisonous effects of the gas. This was a crude proving on a number of individuals. With a team of assistants I went to Bhopal to collect sympatomatology from patients and to attend and alleviate the sufferings of the victims with homoeopathic medicines