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Evening Star, Issue 12101, 6 November 1908, Page 1

A cable just received from Ottawa monV 1 Jl . l -. addl j c66Ul s the Oaiwdirm Medical Association Dr Hastings made the following statement:-‘‘lf the truth was knwvn, 15,000 children of the 30,000 who died in Canada annually might justly haw the epitaph Poisoned by impure* milk’ planed on their gravestones.” Dr Hastings was referring to the milk which has been treated with boradc acid and other preservatives, 1 and of which so much is sold m th* country. While boradc add is one of the most useful drugs for both local and internal use, it is quite unsuitable to be taken in unknown quantises by infants and delicate persons. Even used medicinally, poisonous symptoms may result from it ‘if the patient should be suffering from kidney trouble. Even when the drug is a.)>pliod freely as a dressing, and considerable -is absorbed with slow elimination, poisonous symptoms may be manifest hi skin eruptions and nervous and stomach disturbances. How murh less. then, should it lie employed as a milk preservative?—‘Science Siftings.’