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[2] [medical citation needed] It was credited with the sudden death of actor Bruce Lee in 1973. Lee suffered a fatal hypersensitive reaction to one of the prescription drug's ingredients while working in Hong Kong. [3] [4]
Bruce Lee [b] (born Lee Jun-fan; [c] November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973) was a Hong Kong-American martial artist, actor, filmmaker, and philosopher.He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy which was formed from Lee's experiences in unarmed fighting and self-defense—as well as eclectic, Zen Buddhist and Taoist philosophies—as a new school of martial arts thought.
Meprobamate—marketed as Miltown by Wallace Laboratories and Equanil by Wyeth, among others—is a carbamate derivative used as an anxiolytic drug. It was the best-selling minor tranquilizer for a time, but has largely been replaced by the benzodiazepines due to their wider therapeutic index (lower risk of toxicity at therapeutically prescribed doses) and lower incidence of serious side effects.
"Who killed Bruce Lee? The hyponatraemia hypothesis" is published in the December 2022 issue of Clinical Kidney Journal. "Lee died at the age of 32 in Hong Kong on 20 July 1973, under mysterious ...
Researchers challenge Bruce Lee's cause of death, positing that his brain swelling was caused by low sodium due to chronic elevated water intake. Kidney specialists float a new theory after ...
But on March 31, Lee was killed in an accidental shooting while filming a scene in which his character dies. Ahead of the new “Crow,” we revisit the tragedy of the original.
A number of rumours surfaced surrounding the cause of action film star Bruce Lee's death in 1973, one of which was that he had been killed by the consumption of cannabis. [69] Lee died of a cerebral edema several hours after taking the painkiller and muscle relaxant equagesic. [69]
Ketamine is an anesthetic that has some hallucinogenic effects, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. It distorts the perception of sight and sound, making the user feel disconnected and ...