American family physician
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American family physician · May 1976
Physostigmine treatment of delirium induced by anticholinergics.
Medication with anticholinergic properties are used commonly in family practice. Toxic delirium, which may resemble an acute psychosis, can occur as an adverse drug reaction to properly prescribed anticholingeric medication and to recommended doses of many patent medicines. ⋯ The key to diagnosis is the presence of peripheral signs of parasympathetic blockade. Delirium induced by anticholinergic drugs can be treated rapidly and effectively with physostigmine salicylate.
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With the present level of experience and with current equipment, thermography does not seem sufficiently reliable to substitute for either clinical examination or mammography in breast cancer detection. It is, however, of adjunctive value and can be used in frequent screening and in younger individuals. Women with positive thermograms should be followed more closely, both clinically and radiographically, than the average patient.