“QUACK” MEDICINE.
ELDERLY MAN POISONED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Napier, Last Night. Faith in a “quack” prescription printed on a pamphlet, assuring readers that every man can be his own doctor, resulted in the death at the Napier hospital to-night of Sidney Charles Forrest, a widower, aged 72. Deceased suffered from headaches and nervous troubles and Resolved to try a remedy* he found on a pamphlet thrown over his gate. He procured the ingredients from a chemist and made the mixture himself. Either the prescription was a dangerous one or deceased used the wrong proportions, for he was admitted to hospital on Tuesday with symptoms of poisoning and died as stated.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 August 1922, Page 5
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110“QUACK” MEDICINE. Taranaki Daily News, 3 August 1922, Page 5
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