A STRANGE MALADY.
FATAL PARALYSIS DEVEIXJPS. By Telegraph.—Pres* Amn.—Copyright. London, August 19. Seven persons nave died in Ross-ahire from poisoning. The Times, describing the symptoms, save several complained of double vision and others woke seeing double. Then sickness developed and was followed by paralysis of the throat muscles, making speech impossible but otherwise not affecting the sensibility of the patients who were conscious till the end. The sufferers were unable to apeak, communicating their wishes and explaining the symptoms in writing. They suffered very little pain. The Daily Mail states the illness resembles nothing so much as a strange disease known as grass fever, which killed horses wholesale in the north of Scotland.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 August 1922, Page 5
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113A STRANGE MALADY. Taranaki Daily News, 22 August 1922, Page 5
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