WOOD ALCOHOL' KILLS 61.
“There Avere sixty-one deaths in Pennsylvania in 1921 from AA*ood alcohol poisoning, according to Dr. Tjhomas S. Blair, Chief of the Bureau of Drug Control of the State Health Department,” reports . the Philadelphia Ledger. “Wood alcohol is highly refined, and the more highly refined it is the more aceitone it contains. This chemical is the same poison Avhich forms in advanced cases of diabetes, and it causes , sudden deaths by paralysing the heart and respiration.” Quantities of this class of liquor will be " consumed in this country if Prohibition is carried, AVith the same fatal results. Vote Continuance, and a healthy country. 12
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Shannon News, 20 October 1922, Page 3
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107WOOD ALCOHOL' KILLS 61. Shannon News, 20 October 1922, Page 3
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