(a) (Among) 213 Purpose.?The great majority of poisons were selfadministered. Only two cases of dhatura poisoning were administered by others for the purpose of robbery. (I.) Accident.?(a) Opium, alcohol, cocaine, ganja, bhang, and dhatura were in many cases taken in overdose by people addicted to them, causing symptoms of poisoning. (t) Mistake.?Liniments of camphor, belladonna, aconite, and i...

ALTHOUGH amaurosis due to quinine poisoning is now relatively rare, occasional cases still occur. When quinine is used as an abortifacient, the initial history may be misleading, as in the present case, but the presence of characteristic changes in the fundi usually enables one to be reasonably certain in arriving at a diagnosis. The present case is considered worthy of special record in view o...

Acridine is a heterocyclic nucleus. It plays an important role in various medicines. A number of therapeutic agents are based on acridine nucleus such as quinacrine (antimalarial), acriflavine and proflavine (antiseptics), ethacridine (abortifacient), amsacrine and nitracine (anticancer), and tacrine. Acridine is obtained from high boiling fraction of coal tar. It is also obtained in nature fro...

We restate briefly why we consider that the Th1/Th2 paradigm, as useful as it has been, is now no longer adequate and is obsolete. We take as an example the role of IL-18, abortifacient at high doses but cardinal for the control of natural killer (NK) cell effects on spiral artery remodelling in mice, and likely also in humans. We then describe briefly our recent studies on cytokine defects and...

Cantharidin is a poisonous substance secreted by blister beetles, including the 'Spanish fly'. Historically, cantharidin was used as an aphrodisiac, vesicant and abortifacient. Symptoms of poisoning include gastrointestinal and genitourinary mucosal irritation along with renal dysfunction. We present the case of a reckless 23-year-old soldier who accepted the challenge of eating a beetle (Berbe...

Acupuncture has been used in numerous diseases and for many types of symptoms. It has been also used for obstetric complaints, such as nausea and vomiting, insomnia and low back and girdle pain. There has long been concern that some points--called forbidden--might harm pregnancy owing to a potential abortifacient effect, but it is difficult to confirm this proposition. The small number of avail...