Drug Trial In France
(Rec. 10 p.m.) PARIS, Nov. 15. Georges Feuillet, the 44-year-old inventor of the Stalinon drug alleged to have killed 102 persons and maimed others, sobbed yesterday: “I ask forgiveness.” when a Court president asked him if he had anything to say. The remainder of his reply was engulfed in sobs. The president then announced that judgment was reserved until December 19.
Feuillet is accused of involuntary homicide and of infringing pharmaceutical regulations. The maximum sentence is two years in prison on the first count and a £6OO fine on the second.
Also on trial in the fortnightlong hearing is Henri Genet, charged with infringing pharmaceutical regulations. Genet is the commercial director of the firm that made Stalinon—a drug composed of vitamin F and an organic salt of tin meant to cure boils and abscesses. Instead, it is alleged to have caused as many as 102 deaths. Many of the dead had brain tumours.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28436, 16 November 1957, Page 13
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