BLOOD POISONING
STRANGE MISHAPS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, April 23. Two curious deaths of girls owing to poison from clothing are reported. A twenty-year-old Italian girl 'died from blood poisoning duo to a puncture of the skin by a bone in her corsets. She suddenly " fainted during a ball and was taken home. Tho doctors found that the broken bone in the corsets _ was highly impregnated with prussic acid, and this contaminated the blood stream. In tho other case, Milo. Lapillo, a French girl who was living in Bourgcs, died in terrible agony owing to a slight abrasion of the do re due to a fox fur stole. During a dance a girl friend jokingly imprisoned Milo. Lapdllo’s nose in the month of the fur, saying : “Look out! It bites!” The sharp teeth caused a wound, and the swelling spread over tho whole face. An operation was performed unsuccessfully, and the girl died two days later.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18258, 24 April 1923, Page 9
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