An Outbreak of Epidemic Dropsy
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Chopra et al. (1939) showed, by a controlled feeding experiment in man, that argemone oil (expressed from the seeds of a weed Argemone mexicana) produces symptoms resembling those of epidemic dropsy. In this experiment five individuals, who ate food cooked in mustard oil containing known quantities of argemone oil, developed well-marked oedema and two of them showed the characteristic flushed appearance of the skin and had cardiac involvement (dilatation and murmur). It is interesting to recall that Sarkar (1926) first implicated argemone oil in an outbreak of epidemic dropsy in Malda district. Kamath (1928) described an outbreak
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