OPIATES IN MEDICINE
DOCTOR POINTS TO A DANGER
Bi TELEGBAPn.— Press association Christchurch, May 6.
The use of opiates in medicines for infants was mentioned at an inquest regarding the death of a child aged six months, son of an unemployed labourer.
Dr. D. E. Currie suggested that in any new Poisons Act it should be compulsory for a chemist selling oyer the counter any medicine containing opium that the fact and the quantity should be stated on the label. The cause of the child’s illness was gastric enteritis, but he had been misled in diagnosis by the effect of opium in medicine supplied by a chemist. The Coroner returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 184, 7 May 1928, Page 8
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118OPIATES IN MEDICINE Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 184, 7 May 1928, Page 8
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