Mel,
Well, my post ws rejected because I sent a pix of my "Indiana Hall" Photo from Kyrgystan as a .pdf attachemnt.
I am graduate of IUSB and the Indiana School of Medicine, and I did go to Kyrgystan to try to fix the mess of a 20-ton cyanide release into the Barskoon River. Derned near got deported at gunpoint for my efforts, but managemed do some good work in spite of all that.
Couple of our books might be of interest:
Scharge N et al: Chemical Ocular Burns: New Understanding and Treatment. Springer, Heldelberg, 2011.
Maibach & Hall. Chemical Skin Injury,Mechanisms, Prevention, TDecontamination,Treatment, Springer, Heidelberg, 2014.
And up in Montana,once, I helped my daughter clean out a nasty chemical storage place in a classroom where none of the incompatible substances should have been stored. Took me some time to get the good State environmental guy to dispose of some of it.
Didn't win me any points with the principal. What was that about "No good deed ever goes unpunished?" Last time I tried it, got my hands bitten by a hurt dog.
But maybe the students were safer, and that has to matter.
Alan
Alan H. Hall, M.D.
Medical Toxicologist
