A Shocking Occurrence.
A young physician of Nimes, Dr P., was lktely consulted by a female patient m regard to some trifling ailment.- He took from a glass case a box containing some white .powder, and gave it to her witli directions for use. Mine. R., the patient, took a small pinch of the powder, and finding it very-bitter expressed jsotne;. doubts to the doctor. He, to quiet her feelings, swallowed a good-sized dose of the powder m her presence, and dismissed her. Before preaching her house she fainted, and -was .carried home by her neighbors who called another doctor. Emetics being administered-, she wan soon out of danger, when she related what had occurred m Dr P.'s office.' Th'e physician at once rushed to his brother practitioner, but found hini lying ; on tba floor dead. The white powder was 'Strychnine; ■ This painful . accident shows once: more the wisdom of the French pharmacy laws which forbid physicians to dispense, their, own medicines, and pharmacists to keep all poisons by themselves m a locked closet, the' ; key' 'of which must never,, leave the dispenser's possession. >i ! , ;f! - 'i" •■■ - >i«. 'J/i*
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1611, 18 January 1886, Page 2
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189A Shocking Occurrence. Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1611, 18 January 1886, Page 2
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