Cantharides intoxication.

[Simon Bolivar and the cantharides].

Simon Bolivar, The Liberator, did not trust medical care and if he ever requested a doctor, it seems to have been mainly politically motivated. Unfortunately his fears seem to have been correct as his death was accelerated by Dr. Revenand, a man whose medical title is yet under discussion, who applied an extract of cantharides, a beetle known as "the Spanish fly", employed generally as an aphro...

Protein concentration of cantharides blisters in rheumatoid arthritis.

Previous investigation of the electrophoretic protein patterns of oedema fluids (Consden and Smith, 1965) showed that, in a high proportion of fluids from patients with rheumatoid arthritis, the beta globulin was altered. The purpose of this investigation was to ascertain if a similar change occurred also in the fluids of blisters produced in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and also to compa...

Rhabdomyolysis and thinner intoxication

 Abstract We report a case of paint thinner intoxication by inhalation, with rhabdomyolysis, renal failure, skin lesions and severe sciatic nerve lesion at gluteal region.

Thallium intoxication

We report a rare case of serious voluntary intoxication by laboratory thallium monobromate combined with alcohol intake by a 24-years old man. The diagnosis of thallium intoxication was based on history, nonspecific but typical clinical symptoms including gastrointestinal complaints, painful polyneuropathy, alopecia, and confirmed by the finding of increased thallium concentration in the urine....

Water Intoxication