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Introduction - Uppsala Monitoring Centre

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Physician/scientist Drug taken ADRs reported<br />

Strammonium<br />

skipped beats<br />

Opium<br />

Henbane<br />

Calomel<br />

1844 Horace Wells Nitrous Oxide No painful sensations<br />

1846 WTG Morton Ether Numbness of limbs, like a nightmare<br />

and then unconscious for 7-8 minutes<br />

1847 Sir JY Simpson Chloroform Became unconscious<br />

1848 Erik Jacobson Disulfuram<br />

(Antabuse)<br />

After alcohol–headache, difficulty<br />

breathing, vomiting and lowered BP<br />

1849 Thomas Nunneley Acetyl Chloride Anaesthetic<br />

1851 Joseph Toynbee Chloroform Died<br />

1855 Cesare Bertagnini Salicylic acid Tinnitus and dizziness<br />

1855 Sir Robert Christison Physostigmine (Calabar<br />

bean)<br />

Giddiness, numbness of the limbs,<br />

torpidity and faintness<br />

Oxalic acid, Coniine,<br />

Opium, Cannabis,<br />

Lead, Strychnine,<br />

Arsenic<br />

1856 John Snow Amylene Anaesthesia<br />

1858 AG Field Nitroglycerine Nausea, tinnitus, jaw dropped and<br />

fullness in the neck<br />

1863 TR Fraser Eserine eye drops Contracted pupils<br />

1873 Otto H F Obermaier Cholera vaccine<br />

injection<br />

1879 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Gelsenium (tincture)<br />

Nitroglycerin<br />

Died after a few days<br />

Giddiness, severe depression, headache<br />

and diarrhoea<br />

Congestive headache<br />

1880 William S Halsted Cocaine Lack of fatigue, but became addicted

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