DEATHS FROM PENICILLIN

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28471, 28 December 1957, Page 9

DEATHS FROM PENICILLIN

Survey Started By Doctors

SYDNEY, December 27. Doctors in New South Wales and Victoria have started a survey to find whether there has been in Australia an increase in deaths due to penicillin. Announcing this today a spokesman for the Research Committee of the College of General Practitioners said that more than 60 doctors throughout the two States were co-operating. He said many doctors were alarmed by reports of overseas surveys which showed that penicillin deaths were occurring more frequently The spokesman quoted a report in the British Medical Journal which said that in the last two years at least 50 persons in the United Kingdom had died suddenly after receiving penicillin. It had long been known that certain persons, allergic to penicillin. would be instantly killed by it But the doctors were mainly concerned at what appeared to be an increase in this kind of death, he said.

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