- T.
- N.
- T.
- (TRINITROTOLUENE)
- Symptoms found in munition workers handling T.
- N.
- T who inhale and ingest it and also absorb some through the skin.
- They were compiled by Dr.
- Conrad Wesselhoeft and published in the December, 1926 number of the Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy.
- The destructive action of T.
- N.
- T on the red blood corpuscles is responsible for the anaemia and the jaundice with their secondary symptoms.
- The hemoglobin is changed so it cannot act satisfactorily as an oxygen carrier and as a result we have breathlessness, dizziness, headache, faintness, palpitation, undue fatigue, muscle cramps and cyanosis; also drowsiness, depression and insomnia.
- Later stages of the poisoning produce toxic jaundice and aplastic anaemia.
- The jaundice is the result of cellular destruction in contrast to obstructive jaundice.