A CAUTION TO CHEMISTS.
An elderly spinster, who, by reason of her exaction as to quality and her stringency as to prices of goods supplied, was a terror to the tradespeople where she resided, had one
day the misadventure to drink in mistake a dose of verminkiller. Although for some time in danger i she recovered, to the great satisfaction and equal surprise of her medical man, who, knowing she had swallowed enough of the stuff to poison half a dozen people, had consMered her case hopeless. Subsequent investigation, however, showed the packet sent her to be part of a lot taken over by the chemist from his predecessor in the business, and on examination was found to have deteriorated through long keeping, to which latter fact she undoubtedly owed her life. On the doctor telling her all this she cried to her attendant abigail who was present : "Mind, Maria, when you have to pay that man his bill he must take off the shilling he has charged for that vermin-killer. I won't have him putting off his old stock upon me!"
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 2206, 1 August 1910, Page 7
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182A CAUTION TO CHEMISTS. Cromwell Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 2206, 1 August 1910, Page 7
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