Arsenic poisoning and

Saha, J.C., Dikshit, A.K., Bandyopadhyay, M., and Saha, K.C. 1999. A review of arsenic poisoning and its effects on human health. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 29 281-313. 

Dimercaptopropane sulfonate is the treatment of choice for acute arsenic poisoning and has been used safely in high doses (15.25 g in 12 days, first intravenously and later orally) in a 21-year-old man who swallowed about 1000 mg or more of arsenic trioxide (1). There were no adverse effects. A modest transient increase in serum transaminases was thought to have been due to the arsenic. 

Bunsen was an avid experimentalist. He spent much of his time in the laboratory trying to discover the composition of chemical substances. His early research concerned the properties of arsenic and its compoimds. In particular, the chemical composition of a certain class of chemicals, called cacodyls, was unknown. His experiments showed that cacodyls were oxides of arsenic. But Bunsen s work with arsenic nearly cost him his life—he nearly killed himself through arsenic poisoning and lost the sight in one eye during his experiments with cacodyls. 

M. Kempson, D. A. Henry (2010) Determination of arsenic poisoning and metabolism in hair by synchrotron radiation the case of Phar Lap. At ew. Chem. Intematl. Ed, 49,4237-4240. 

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