MYSTERIOUS SICKNESS
THE CAUSE DISCOVERED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright ; CAPE TOWN, February 9. (Received February 10, at 11 a.m.) A week’s research established that the cause of a form of paralysis prevalent in Durban and holiday resorts in Natal, also affecting the crew of a steamer en route to England which was compelled to put in at Dakar, was a vegetable extract of. which calcium oxalate was a normal constituent. The steamer' took eight gallons for use as salad oil.
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Evening Star, Issue 22879, 10 February 1938, Page 11
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79MYSTERIOUS SICKNESS Evening Star, Issue 22879, 10 February 1938, Page 11
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