DEATH OF PHAR LAP
EVIDENCE OF ARSENIC POISONING
(Received March 31, 12.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 30. Following an announcement that Sir Colin McKenzie, Director of the Canberra Institute of Anatomy, will make enouiries in America into Phar Lap's death. Dr. Stewart McKay explains that he dissected the horse's heart, which was sent back from America. The outside muscular coat was covered with a thin laver of black blood that must have formed while Phar Lap was alive. After much searching of literature Dr. McKay ascertained that this condition had been discerned by some German observer in cases of arsenic poisoning. i
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21746, 31 March 1936, Page 11
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