A Fatality Due to the Use of Cantharides from Mylabris Phalerata as an Abortifacient-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

A Fatality Due to the Use of Cantharides from Mylabris Phalerata as an Abortifacient

Published:1990-10 Issue:4 Volume:30 Page:336-340
ISSN:0025-8024
Container-title:Medicine, Science and the Law
language:en
Short-container-title:Med Sci Law

Author:

Kok-Choi Cheng,Hee-Ming Lee,Bobby Shum S.F.,David Yip C.P.

Abstract

A fatal case of attempting to procure abortion by the ingestion of the crude extract of cantharides from over 200 dried Mylabris phalerata is presented. The quantification of catharidin in blood, urine and liver by gas chromatography using trichloroacetic acid in the extraction process and butobarbitone as the internal standard is described. Ante- and post-mortem blood levels were found to be 0.27 and 0.11 μg/ml respectively. To conclude, the lack of legislative control in Hong Kong over Chinese herbal medicines is highlighted.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Law,Health Policy,Issues, ethics and legal aspects

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/106002809003000410

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