Nutmeg Intoxication

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WITH the geometric multiplication of drugs available for use in the 1960's and with the corresponding increase in side effects, toxicity and complications, it is refreshing to report anew a toxic state attributable to a common household spice — nutmeg — used since the Middle Ages. Nutmegs were introduced into Europe by the Arabs in the middle of the twelfth century,1 and poisoning with this spice was probably documented as early as 1576.2 Nutmegs are the dried seed kernels of a tall evergreen tree, Myristica fragrans, indigenous to the Molucca Islands of the South Pacific, and now widely cultivated on . . .

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