FATAL REMEDY
DEATHS IN STATES ASSOCIATION'S WARNING (Received October 20, 2.30 p.m.) CHICAGO, October 19. The American Medical Association disclosed that nine out of -ten persons at Tulsa, Oklahoma, to whom was administered what was claimed to be an extremely effective remedy have died. The preparation which was used at Tulsa and which is called "Elixir Sulfanilamide," is used principally for blood infections. There were" also four other deaths elsewhere and 375 shipments of the preparation which had been sent to other parts of the country, are being recalled. The association, without condemning sulfanilamide, which has been hailed by the medical world, says: "The tragic experience should be a final warning to physicians regarding' the prescribing and administering of semi-secret unstandardised preparations."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 96, 20 October 1937, Page 14
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122FATAL REMEDY Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 96, 20 October 1937, Page 14
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