ANTIMONY FROM BULLET IN WAR WOUND?

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 120, 6 February 1923, Page 5

ANTIMONY FROM BULLET IN WAR WOUND?

♦ « A HUDDERSFIELD POISON MYSTER V. The Huddersfield Coroner recently held an inquiry into the case of Harold Glendinning. a music teacher, of New Street. Milnsbridge. near Huddersfield. who died on November 11. It was stated that death was duo to heart failure erweiwnt, ■••''■■i '’"«tr<>entcritis, but that the malady was aggravated by the presence of a : ni.i i I quantity of antimonious oxide which had been found in the internal organs. The inquiry was then adjourned in : order that an analysis might be made of patent medicines and certain foods which Glendinning bed taken. It was stated subsequently that the county analyst bad rc-mrlrd lhat thc’-c ! was no trace of antimony in any of < the samples sent for analysis. i Mr. Charles Glendinning, the father, said that during the war the son was : shot in the thigh. It bud been rug- ' gested that the antimonv in his son’s < •system bad been introduced hv the ' nozzle of a German bullet, as ihc lat- ' ter were hardened with antimonv. 1 After being wounded his son was in hospital in Germany, and when he returned bo bad lost his teeth and hair f and was much thinner. ' Dr. Rattray. Milnsbridge, said that < I there was nothing to account for the ; presence of antimony. If it had been introduced in Germany in 1916 it I would have been eliminated by now < from a live bodv.