Talk:Death of Jimi Hendrix

Article Misrepresents Autopsy Data

In the "Post-Mortem" section the article claims Dr Teare stated Jimi's blood alcohol content was 100mg per 100ml...This is not entirely accurate...I personally possess Jimi Hendrix's autopsy sheets and what is really entered is Dr Teare said he was "estimating" a 100mg per 100ml blood alcohol content at the time of ingestion of the pills...The article errs because it is misleading and suggests Jimi actually had a 100mg per 100ml blood alcohol content that was measured at his autopsy...This is factually incorrect and therefore inherently misleading since the autopsy itself makes clear that Teare actually measured a 5mg blood alcohol content at autopsy...The equipment of the day was only capable of measuring 5mg as the lowest reading, so the actual amount could be as little as 1mg...The 5mg recorded at Jimi's autopsy can validly be called a "trace" amount so the 100mg the article suggests is largely misleading...I managed to find the passage from Moskowitz from which the quote was gotten and whoever wrote the article omitted the word "estimated" that Moskowitz did include...I consider this an intentional misquote that drastically alters the meaning of the passage and what it suggests...In the actual autopsy sheet itself Dr Teare made a special notation where he emphasized that he was "estimating" a 100mg per 100ml blood alcohol content at the time of ingestion of the pills but Teare then failed to include what that specific time was in order to establish proper forensic parameters...Meanwhile that same autopsy sheet lists the actual measured blood alcohol content as being 5mg...

This is furthered by the fact the reference for the 100mg amount is Moskowitz...Moskowitz is an obscure unknown source...As an expert on this subject I have never heard of Moskowitz and the source that should have been used was Tony Brown's 'Hendrix: The Final Days' from which I got the information that Dr Teare estimated the 100mg amount...Further investigation is needed to see if Dr Teare violated autopsy law by estimating a critical forensic measurement in his 100mg entry...The footnote also references Glebbeek as a source for this information...Glebbeek is the author of the publication 'Until We Meet Again' (2011) in which he makes the case Jimi wasn't murdered...This shows biased sourcing since 'Until We Meet Again' can be considered tendentious in its coverage of the facts...Again, while the article lists Jimi as consuming the blood alcohol equivalent of 4 pints of beer the real 5mg amount listed in the autopsy was only a swig's worth...Dr Teare also failed to include any time line listing of when this ingestion occurred...

Also included in the article was a reference to 1.8mg of barbiturate being found in Jimi's blood...The source is once again Moskowitz even though Brown mentions that the original autopsy only found a .7mg barbiturate content...May I be clear that the correct referenced history of Jimi's autopsy information is Dr Teare found a 5mg blood alcohol content and .7mg blood barbiturate level at the autopsy...If you accurately follow the autopsy, Teare re-examined his findings and upped both the blood alcohol and barbiturate counts from his original measurements that were recorded in the autopsy...I also think Moskowitz may be in error because my records show Teare upped his finding to 1.2mg from .7mg (as was referenced in Brown)...There was a statement from one of the coroners that .7mg was not a fatal amount so you can see what the problem is with the information in the current article and what it induces people to believe...Glebbeek's 'Until We Meet Again' publication contains the manufacturer's product information for the Vesparax barbiturate....It lists Lethal Dose as "9 to 10 tablets"...The 9 tablets Jimi took equals roughly the .7mg found at autopsy and Jimi had a notorious tolerance...Please reference the Wikipedia article for Barbiturates and you will see 2000mg is required for Lethal Dose in persons with no tolerance...9 Vesparax only contains 1800mg of barbiturate, 450mg of which is slow release Brallobarbitone...That's why the manufacturer lists the 10th pill as being necessary for overdose (in persons with no tolerance)...

It should also be included in the article that the London Coroner's Office uses the standard medical nomenclature "Intoxication" for less than lethal amounts and "Poisoning" for overdose amounts...Jimi's Cause Of Death at his Inquest listed "Barbiturate Intoxication" (as indicated in the article) therefore conflicting with Teare's later 1.2mg estimate... — Preceding unsigned comment added by ScrumDrum (talk • contribs) 23:09, 23 May 2020 (UTC)