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Epidemic dropsy

The clinical syndrome caused by sanguinarine from argemone-oil-adulterated mustard oil: bilateral pitting oedema, erythema with brownish discolouration, glaucoma from trabecular meshwork permeability changes, and in severe cases congestive cardiac failure.

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