MESCAL INTOXICATION.

Mescal and Mechanisms of Hallucinations

The author is the distinguished Sewell L. Avery Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences at the University of Chicago, and is well known as one of the world's outstanding behavioral neurophysiologists especially with regard to primates. This booklet testifies to his firm grasp of human psychophysiology. His scholarly considerations of hallucinatory mechanisms span more than four decades and pa...

An Enquiry into the Causes of Mescal Visions.

MESCAL hallucinations have recently been investigated in the hope that their elucidation might help to unravel other hallucinatory phenomena. Zucker 1 administered mescaline to patients with hallucinations. From the protocols given many of the effects obtained (coloured lights, tapestry patterns, visions of snakes and other animals) appear to have been similar to those induced by mescaline in n...

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