Love and death in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde--an epic anticholinergic crisis.
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Abstract
In Wagner's opera <i>Tristan und Isolde</i> 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
Medical subject headings
- Death
- Love
- Medicine in the Arts
- Music