THE MORPHIA TRAGEDY
MRS GRANSTOUN'S STATEMENT. INOCULATED WITH INFLUENZA ANTIDOTE. Press Association—'By Telegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, August 15. Mrs Cranston™ lias sufficiently recovered to' make a statement, which was corroborated) by her two daughters. ' She said that on Sunday evening her husband informed her that ho had prepared a new antidote for influenza, and asked her to allow him to test it on her before giving it to his patients. Sho acquiesced, and was inoculated. The doctor then said that while he was about it ho might .is well “ do the lot,” meaning the other members of the household. The whole family, including Miss Bayliss, were then treated. About an hour later the mother and daughters were inoculated with a second l dose of the antidote. There was no explanation given as to why morphia was injected.
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Evening Star, Issue 18048, 16 August 1922, Page 8
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135THE MORPHIA TRAGEDY Evening Star, Issue 18048, 16 August 1922, Page 8
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