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Akhilesh K. Pathak
ABSTRACT
We herein present an autopsy case of death due to suicidal ingestion of plant energizer liquid. The victim was a 35 year old male who died due to suicidal consumption of a liquid, which is commonly used for the purpose to enhance the growth of vegetable and fruit crops in India. Clinical findings of persistent cyanosis without having any other cause, circumstances of death with autopsy findings in the form of characteristic smell of poison from the gastric contents and chocolate brown tinted blood was suggesting the probability of death due to severe methemoglobinemia caused by consumption of poison and toxicological analysis of the viscera of autopsy confirmed the presence of Nitrobenzene poison.
Key-words: Poisoning, Autopsy, Nitrobenzene, Plant energizer, Methemoglobinemia.