POISONED BY PLASTER.
An extraordinary case of belladonna poisoning was treated in the Melbourne Hospital recently. Clifford Markby, aged thirty-four years, who lives at Sandringham, entered the institution bearing all the symptoms of a person who had swallowed the drug. He explained, however, that, although he had not swallowed belladonna, he had had a belladonna plaster on his back. A vigorous rubbing with eucalyptus oil had been given him that morning to relieve pain in his back, and at a later stage a belladonna plaster was applied. The massaging had opened the pores of the skin, and the poisonous substance of the plaster, which was warmed by the body, was taken into the system. Dr. Jones treated the patient, who soon recovered sufficiently to leave the institution.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 19, 5 January 1911, Page 3
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