DEATHS FROM SLIMMING
Placing of Drugs on Poison List LONDON, April 0 Several recent deaths of girls owing to slimming by the use of drugs of the nitropheno! group, of which the death of Miss “Biddy” Phileox, the New Zealander, is an example, have caused wholesale chemists to petition the Rome Office to place such drugs on the poison list, to be supplied only by doctor’s prescription. Doctors say that apart from the risk of death through an overdose, knowledge >f the effect of these remedies is little known. Medicos use the greatest caution in prescribing them.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 97, 7 April 1934, Page 9
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