Corked up: Clinical hyoscine poisoning with alkaloids of the native corkwood, Duboisia

1 October 1981

journal article
case report
Published by AMPCo in The Medical Journal of Australia

Vol. 2 (8) , 422-423
https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1981.tb101037.x

Abstract

Australian native trees of the genus Duboisia contain high concentrations of atropine‐like alkaloids, especially hyoscine. Occupational exposure to the dried plant material results in two c...

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