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A PARTICULAR, FORM. CAUSED BY VEGETABLE EXTRACT. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). • (Received 'this day at 1.30 p.m.) CAPETOWN, February 9. Weeks of research has established that the cause of a form of paralysis prevalent in Durban and holiday resorts in Natal,, and also affecting the crew of a steamer on 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 to use as salad oil.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 February 1938, Page 5
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