NITRO-PHENOL DRUGS
' Recent Deaths of Girls in England WARNING BY DOCTORS (Received April 6. 7.30 p.m,). London. April 6. Several recent, deaths of girls owing to “slimming” by the use of drugs of the nitro-phenol group have caused wholesale chemists to petition the Home Office to place such drugs on the poison list, to be supplied only by a doctor’s prescription. Doctors say that apart from the risk of death through an overdose, a knowledge of the effect of these remedies is little known. Medical men use the greatest caution when prescribing them. One of the recent victims of nitrophenol poisoning was the former New Zealander, Miss Philcox. After an inquiry into the cause of her death, the coroner returned a verdict that death was due to nitro-phenol poisoning as the result of misadventure. He gave a serious warning against the use ol drugs for slimming. The evidence showed that Miss Philcox, under medical advice, took nitro-phenol capsules, and. finding that they were not having the desired effect, took an increased dose without consulting the doctor.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 163, 7 April 1934, Page 7
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