Van Gogh's Vision: Digitalis Intoxication?

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 245, Issue 7, 1981, Pages 727-729

  Lee, Thomas Courtney ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITALIS;

CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; INTOXICATION;

ART; CASE REPORT; COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; DIGITALIS; EPILEPSY; FAMOUS PERSONS; HISTORY OF MEDICINE, 19TH CENT.; HUMAN; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PAINTINGS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PLANTS, TOXIC; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 0019482713     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1981.03310320049025     Document Type: Article

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