- Jamaica ginger - Wikipedia
Tri-ortho cresyl phosphate (TOCP), also called tricresyl phosphate, was the neurotoxin responsible for the paralysis associated with "Jake Walk "
- Triortho cresyl phosphate “Ginger Jake” disaster—United States,1930s
Poisoning by Ginger Jake, a cheap, alcoholic tonic tainted with the neurotoxic chemical triortho cresyl phosphate, affected more than 50,000 people, many of them middle-aged, jobless, vagrant men living in poverty
- Delayed Polyneuropathy Induced by Organophosphate Poisoning
The earliest epidemics of OPIDN, which were known as Ginger Jake paralysis, were caused by consuming alcohol contaminated with triortho-cresyl phosphate in the United States during the prohibition era (4)
- Jamaica Ginger Paralysis: Forty-seven-Year Follow-up - JAMA Network
Abstract • In 1930, thousands of Americans were poisoned by an illicit extract of Jamaica ginger ("jake") used to circumvent the Prohibition laws A neurotoxic organophosphate compound, triorthocresyl phosphate (TOCP), had been used as an adulterant
- (PDF) Pharmacology and public health: the Jamaica ginger paralysis . . .
Poisoning by Ginger Jake, a cheap, alcoholic tonic tainted with the neurotoxic chemical triortho cresyl phosphate, affected more than 50,000 people, many of them middle-aged, jobless,
- Pharmacology and Public Health: The Jamaica Ginger Paralysis . . . - JSTOR
Maurice I Smith and E Elvove, with the cooperation of P J Valaer, Jr , William H Frazier and G E Mallory, "Phar- macological and Chemical Studies of the Cause of So-Called Ginger Paralysis: A Preliminary Report," Pub Health Rep 45 (1930):1703-1716 (especially p 1704)
- Jamaican Ginger Paralysis - Institute for Food Laws and Regulations
Jamaican ginger extract had been a popular patent medicine through the 1800s and early 1900s without ill effects Jake Leg, a paralytic illness, was caused by the intentional adulteration with tri-orthocresyl phosphate (TOCP)
- Ginger Jake Paralysis | SpringerLink
During prohibition, people drank a homemade alcoholic drink laced with the organophosphate triorthocresyl phosphate made from Jamaican ginger (TOCP) Ginger Jake paralysis affected approximately 20,000 people worldwide
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