The Match-Head Diet.
(Per Press Association.) NAPIER, August 20. Eliza Sheppard, a domestic, was taken to the hospital suffering from phosphorus poisoning. She swallowed dissolved match-heads, using five boxes of matches, and shortly afterwards informed' her mistress, who immediately sent for a doctor. The girl is now out of 'danger.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 195, 22 August 1904, Page 3
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50The Match-Head Diet. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 195, 22 August 1904, Page 3
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