DEATHS IN UNITED STATES
SEMI-SECRET PREPARATION ADMINISTERED WARNING TO PHYSICIANS I United Press Association— By Electrio Telegraph-Copyright 1 (Received 20th October, noon) CHICAGO, 19th October. The American Medical Association disclosed that nine out of ten persons at Tulsa, Oklahoma, to whom was administered what was claimed to be an extremely effective remedy, have died. The preparation used at Tulsa was called elixir sulfanilamide, and is used principally for blood infections. There were also four other deaths elsewhere, and 375 shipments of the preparation which had been sent to other parts of the country are being recalled. The Association, without condemning sulfanilamide, which has been hailed by the medical world, says, “The tragic experience should be a final warning to physicians regarding the prescribing and administering of semi-scrct unstandardised preparations.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 20 October 1937, Page 5
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