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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 259, 31 July 1939, Page 13

Six patients died and 13 others were poisoned—of whom some contracted gangrene—after the mistaken use of one substance instead of another as a local anaesthetic before operations performed in the County Hospital in Wiborg (Finland). A young probationer nurse had been put in charge of the dispensing owing to lack of funds for engaging trained dispensers for the Finnish hospitals.