An Outbreak of Epidemic Dropsy in a Closed Community
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An Outbreak of Epidemic Dropsy
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 a...
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دوره 74 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 1939