A Shocking Occurrance

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 93, 16 January 1886, Page 3

A Shocking Occurrance

—. « — A young physician of Nimes, Dr P., was' lately consulted by a female patient in regard to some trifling ailment. He took from a glass case a box containing some white powder, and gave it to her i with directions for use. Mme. R., the I patient, took a small pinch ot the powder, and finding it very bitter expressed some doubts to the doctor. He, to quiet her feelings, swallowed a good-sized dose of ;' the powder in her presence, and dismissed her. Before reaching her house she fainted, and was carried home by her neighbours who called another doctor. Emetics being administered, she was soon but of danger, when she related what had occurred in Dr jP.'s office. The physician at once rushed at once to his brother practitioner, but found him lying on the floor dead The white powder was strychnine. Tlii»painful accident. shows once more the wisdom of the French pharmacy laws which forbid physicians to .dispense their" own medicines, and pharmacists to keep nil poisons by themselves in * locked closet, \ha key of which must never leave th'i. dispenser's possession. ' •'■'"':' ':':"■'■■'

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