Love and death in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde--an epic anticholinergic crisis.

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Department of Internal Medicine I, Medical University Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, D-23538 Lübeck, Germany.

Published: December 2003

In Wagner's opera the main protagonists take a love potion, which has various side effects and possibly causes Isolde's death. Gunther Weitz argues that the symptoms fit with severe anticholinergic syndrome

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