MYSTERIOUS DISEASE
IN NORTH OF SCOTLAND. ASTIGMATISM PRELUDES DEATH. f, Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, August 20. (Received August 21, at 10AO a.m.) Seven persons have died in Rossshiro from poisoning. ‘The Times,’ in describing the symptoms, says that several complained of double vision, while others woke seeing double. Then sickness developed, followed by paralysis of the throat muscles, making .speecfi impossible, but otherwise.not affecting the sensibility of the patients, who remained conscious till tho end. The sufferers are unable to speak, communicating their wishes and explaining their symptoms in writing. They suffer 'very little pain.
The ‘Daily Mail’ states) that the illness resembles nothing so much as that strange disease known as “grass fever,” which killed horses wholesale in the North of Scotland.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18052, 21 August 1922, Page 4
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126MYSTERIOUS DISEASE Evening Star, Issue 18052, 21 August 1922, Page 4
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