INFANTILE PARALYSIS
CAUSED BY VEGETABLE EXTRACT. CAPE TOWN, February 9. A week’s research has established that the cause of a form of paralysis prevalent in Durban and at 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 eigffi gallons, to use as salad oil.
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Grey River Argus, 11 February 1938, Page 11
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73INFANTILE PARALYSIS Grey River Argus, 11 February 1938, Page 11
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