SUBTLE POISON
MYSTERIOUS PARALYSIS SEVERAL CASES IN DURBAN. CAPE TOWN, April 29. A subtle poison, unknown to science, is the verdict of a South African pathologist, who experimented on the cause of a disease leading to the partial paralysis of a number of residents of Durban, and of passengers and crew of a steamer which loaded at Durban. The pathologist believes it to be a poison within the creosol group. All the victims consumed a certain commodity, which was pure on analysis. Probably, it contained an unknown poison. The League of Nations Medical Bureau has been asked to appeal for information of any similar outbreak, so as to secure world-wide co-operation.
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Evening Star, Issue 22953, 10 May 1938, Page 9
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111SUBTLE POISON Evening Star, Issue 22953, 10 May 1938, Page 9
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