PECULIAR POISONING CASE
VOLUNTEERS AS COOKS. By Telegraph—Press Association. WANGANUI. December 30 A peculiar poisoning case is reported from Raetihi amongst a company of volunteers in camp. During the absence of the cook scones were made Dy three volunteers who used what they took to be baking powder, but which turned out to be boracic acid. Before anyone had finished eating a scone, all the men began to twitch all over, lost the power of speech, and one man fell powerless to the ground. After a few hours the effects wore off. Fortunately the effects were produced almost instantaneously after eating otherwise the results might have been more serious if more scones had been consumed.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9679, 31 December 1909, Page 5
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115PECULIAR POISONING CASE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9679, 31 December 1909, Page 5
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