WAR-TIME POISON.
DISCOVERY OF THE CAUSE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyrlgtt. Received Oct. 30, 5.5 p.m. London, Oct. 28. Professor Benjamin Moore reveals in' the British Medical Journal that he and 'two colleagues, hearing of serious T.N.T. poisoning during the war, went to a munition factory where girls were dying in numbers. Professor Moore and his colleagues purposely poisoned themselves in order to discover the cause. Finally they discovered that only a certain percentage of persons were acutely susceptible, owing to peculiarity of their skins, and these were sent to other work.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 31 October 1921, Page 5
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92WAR-TIME POISON. Taranaki Daily News, 31 October 1921, Page 5
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