WOOD ALCOHOL KILLS 61.
"There were sixty-one death* in Pennsylvania in io-:i from wood alcohol poisoning, according to Dr Thomas S. Blair, Chief of the Bureau of Drug Control of the State Health Department," reports the "Philadelphia Ledger."
"Wood alcohol is highly refined, and the more highly refined it is the more acetone it contains' This chemical is (he same gpisqii which forms in advanced cases of diabetes, and it pauses sudden deatjis by paralysing the heart and respiration/'
Uuantities of this class of liquor will fc>S consumed in this country if Prohibit ion is carried, with the same fatal results. Vote Continuance, and * hjf>Jtby country.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 3140, 23 October 1922, Page 5
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