There are poisons which are rapidly fatal to man, yet which have comparatively little effect upon animals. Dogs and horses can take ten times as much morphine in comparison to their body weight ■ as man can. The pigeon can take 500 times as much, while a frog is unhurt by a dose a thousand limes greater, weight for weight, than one l which will kill a human being. '
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2034, 27 September 1919, Page 1
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68Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2034, 27 September 1919, Page 1
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