ISSN: 0022-1198
CODEN: JFSCA
Published Online: 1 October 1982
Page Count: 7

Datura stramonium: A Fatal Poisoning
Bowerman, DL
Pathologist, pathologist, and toxicologist, Toxicology Laboratory, St. Francis Hospital, CO

Levisky, JA
Pathologist, pathologist, and toxicologist, Toxicology Laboratory, St. Francis Hospital, CO

Pflug, JL
Research chemist, U. S. Air Force Academy, CO

Urich, RW
Pathologist, pathologist, and toxicologist, Toxicology Laboratory, St. Francis Hospital, CO

(Received 8 December 1981; accepted 4 February 1982)

Abstract

A case report of death caused by ingestion of Datura stramonium, also referred to as jimsonweed, thorn apple, or Jamestown weed, is presented. Mass spectral data on urine extracts of a 20-year-old male showed the molecular ions and principal fragment ions of scopolamine and atropine, present in Datura stramonium.

Keywords:
toxicology, poisons, Datura stramonium, mass spectrometry, tropane alkaloids, scopolamine

Paper ID: JFS12217J
DOI: 10.1520/JFS12217J
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