DOPING THE HEART.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 229, 24 November 1916, Page 5 (Supplement)

DOPING THE HEART.

DOCTORS DISCOVER NEW TRICK TO EVADE -MILITARY SERVICE. "Xo man can iool a doctor by taking a drug any more than l>y making himf'i{' drunk and pretending that he is ill, a well-known London physician tn! dtlie "Daily Mirror." He was discussing the new phase of tlie "dope' evil which has been discovered by doctors examining men under the Military Service- Act. Quito an epidemic of '"heart" cases ha-s broken out among a large number of ni.'n m the We-*. Central district o* Lord^n. In tiiis district there is a gang at work which on the niornmg a man has to be examined supplies him with a drug that temporarily affects tlwhonrt's t:ct : on. "I d> not know of any drug in existence which can so affect the heart and at the mn. 1 time deceive a medical man," said the doctor. "Men mar be atempting to 'dope' by taking r. drug, but I doubt, whether cne in ti hundred suoceeds." A HOME TRUTH. Drown was of his fronkness. We have so often turned the other cheek to Oermanv that we may not have th<- face to do it again.—"Brooklyn Eagle."