MYSTERIOUS DISEASE.
SEVEN DEATHS IN ROSS-SHIRE
VICTIMS STRICKEN DUMB. United Service. LONDON. Aug. 30.
Seven persons have died in Ross-shire from poisoning. The Times, describing tho symptoms, says that several complained of double vision, others woke seeing double. Then sickness developed followed by paralysis of the throat muscles, making speech impossible, but otherwise not affectinc the sensibility of patient*, who were conscious till the -end. The sufferers were unable to speak, and had to communicate their wishes and explain their symptoms in writing. They suffered very little pain.
The Daily Mail states the illness resembles nothing so much as the strange disease known as grass fever, which killed horses wholesale in the North of Scotland.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18175, 22 August 1922, Page 7
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115MYSTERIOUS DISEASE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18175, 22 August 1922, Page 7
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