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Report of a hallucination in a physician
Identifier
019469
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Ciprofloxacin is an antibiotic used to treat a number of bacterial infections.[2] This includes bone and joint infections, intra abdominal infections, certain type of infectious diarrhea, respiratory tract infections, skin infections, typhoid fever, and urinary tract infections, among others.
A description of the experience
Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2001 Dec 22;145(51):2497-8.
[Report of a hallucination].
[Article in Dutch]
Prakken H.
Abstract
A physician experienced an hallucination during the early phase of an acute febrile infection of the urinary tract that was being treated with a cure of ciprofloxacin. He could trace back the visual appearances in the hallucination to elements in a medical journal article that he had read a few weeks previously.
PMID:
11789158
The source of the experience
PubMedConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
Symbols
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
AntibioticsBladder and urinary tract disease
Urinary and bladder control treatments