TRAGEDY OF A DOCTOR
FATAL DOSE OF MORPHINE AFTER DEATH OF HIS WIFE “I am played out and must have some sleep. Please don’t disturb me.” This was the text of a note left by Dr. James Milner, 65, of Wingoff Lodge, Milton Road, Bournemouth, who was found in bed apparently asleep when his brother-in-law, Dr. D. MacArthur, of Bromley, Kent, called on him an hour after the inquest on Mrs. Milner, his wife, who died during an operation. Near the bed were an empty hypodermic syringe and a phial which had contained morphine tablets. Dr. Milner died the next day and at an inquest at Bournemouth Dr. Bodley Scott said death was due to heart failure. He added that for many years Dr. Milner had taken morphine for acute headaches. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence, adding that death was accelerated by an over-dc £ of morphine accidentally taken to obtain sleep.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 365, 28 May 1928, Page 14
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