Abstract:
:The Mombello Psychiatric Hospital in Limbiate, near Milan, replaced the old Senavra Hospital as the Psychiatric Hospital for the Province of Milan in the 19th century. During the early 20th century, bodies of several Mombello patients were dissected and preserved by Giuseppe Paravicini, an anatomist who operated within the asylum. The aim of the present study was to examine and memorialize this important assemblage. To this end, we were allowed to sample the head hair of six such preparations for toxicological analysis. By means of high performance liquid chromatography, cocaine and its main metabolite, benzoylecgonine, were detected in two out of six hair samples. The concentrations for cocaine were 0.151 and 0.09ng/mg and for benzoylecgonine 0.103 and 0.147ng/mg, respectively. Given that cocaine was a commonly used medicine, beginning in the mid-19th century and persisting into the 20th century, it is not surprising that some patients may have ingested this drug. In addition to the detection of cocaine, these analyses also provided evidence of nicotine and caffeine intake.
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Forensic Sci Intjournal_title
Forensic science internationalauthors
Musshoff F,Fels H,Carli A,Piombino-Mascali Ddoi
10.1016/j.forsciint.2016.11.011subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2017-01-01 00:00:00pages
20-24eissn
0379-0738issn
1872-6283pii
S0379-0738(16)30487-Xjournal_volume
270pub_type
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