Mr. Blanton says some colonists might have suffered from salt poisoning.

The same show attributed most of the deaths on Indianapolis to exposure, salt poisoning and thirst, with the dead being dragged off by sharks.

In 1979, concerned about his own high blood pressure, Beard read a medical journal editorial entitled "Hypertension - salt poisoning?"

The naturally occurring condition diabetes insipidus was suggested as a more likely cause of an elevated salt level than deliberate salt poisoning.

The main intellectual framework for this deduction was 'Non-accidental salt poisoning' - a theory provided by Professor Roy Meadow back in 1993.

It is now subject to a medical review following a number of criminal trials where parents were charged with child abuse by salt poisoning based on hypernatremia in the affected children.

On the tip of the Kulandy Peninsula, there were many small dead anchovylike fish, atherina, washed up on the shore, and others swam unsteadily, dying of salt poisoning.

All of Maelgrim's Thienz crew had perished of salt poisoning; alone in a boat severely-battered by the aftermath of the storm set loose by Jaric, the Dark-dreamer currently struggled to patch tattered canvas, that he might sail for Shadowfane and the north.