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Poisoning by Hemlock Water Dropwort

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We describe accidental Hemlock Water Dropwort poisoning in four adults, who ate Hemlock tubers, mistaking them for celery. The patients described almost certainly survived because they boiled the tubers, inactivating Oenanthotoxin, the active principle.

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  1. Department of Gastroenterology, Regional Hospital, Cork

    S. O’Mahony, P. Fitzgerald & M. J. Whelton

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O’Mahony, S., Fitzgerald, P. & Whelton, M.J. Poisoning by Hemlock Water Dropwort. I.J.M.S. 156, 241 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02954055

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