Death Due to Cardiac Disease Following the Use of Emetine Hydrochloride in Conditioned-Reflex Treatment of Chronic Alcoholism
- 23 June 1949
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 240 (25), 995-997
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm194906232402502
Abstract
BECAUSE of the increasing use of emetine hydrochloride in the conditioned-reflex treatment of chronic alcoholism, because the cardiac manifestations of toxicity have not been stressed in the literature and because deaths can probably be avoided by consideration of certain gastrointestinal and neuromuscular warning symptoms of toxicity, the following fatal case of myocardial damage after emetine administration is being reported.Case ReportA 33-year-old man was first seen on November 10, 1947, at 11 p.m., 1 week after his last of a series of ten emetine injections for conditioned-reflex treatment of chronic alcoholism at a nearby mental institution. His complaints were . . .Keywords
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