What is hyoscine N-butylbromide?

dc.contributor.authorOuthoff, Kim
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-25T09:27:26Z
dc.date.available2016-04-25T09:27:26Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractAt 9 am on the 23rd of November 1910, Dr Harvey Hawley Crippen, an American who had originally trained as a homeopathic doctor, was dispatched to the next world by public hanging in London’s Pentonville prison for murdering his minor-celebrity singer wife, Belle. In court, he was described as “quiet, mild and polite, a docile husband and an apparently entirely unremarkable person.” His wife appeared to be “a blowsy, heavy-drinking nightmare, vain, bullying and promiscuous.” Nonetheless, after she had been missing for some time and suspicions were raised, parts of the unfortunate Mrs Crippen’s dissected body were found hidden under their coal cellar, along with traces of poison. Dr Crippen was arrested when he tried to escape to Canada by passenger liner with his mistress, Ethel Le Neve, who had disguised herself (unsuccessfully) as a young boy.1 The British public was entranced with this story, one which was peppered with glamour, intrigue, murder, adultery, conflict, a high-speed transatlantic chase and pharmacology: Dr Crippen’s poison of choice was hyoscine.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentPharmacologyen_ZA
dc.description.librarianam2016en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.safpj.co.za/index.php/safpjen_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://medpharm.tandfonline.com/loi/ojfp20#.VgJFAVQaJHgen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationOuthoff, K 2015, 'What is hyoscine N-butylbromide?', South African Family Practice, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 13-14.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1608-4356 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1727-9835 (online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/52139
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherMedPharm Publicationsen_ZA
dc.rights© 2015 The Author(s). Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons License [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0].en_ZA
dc.subjectHyoscine N-butylbromide (HBB)en_ZA
dc.subjectPoisonen_ZA
dc.titleWhat is hyoscine N-butylbromide?en_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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