POISON TAKEN BY MISTAKE
(per press association. ) Grey-mouth, March 9. There has been a narrow escape from poisoning here. Mr 3 Brimble, wife of Mr James Brimble, publican, while suffering from a severe cold, asked her husband to get a bottle of Irish Moss from a drawer to take a dose. In the same drawer was another bottle of the same size containing belladonna. Both are viscous liquids, and both sweet, in mistake, James Brimble also having a cold, took a dose of belladonna, and gave another to his wife. Soon followed symptoms of poisoning, and Dr Millington was called in and administered remedies. The case was so seriuU3 that ho sent to Kumara for Dr Mile 3 who promptly attended for consultation. James Brimble is now out of all danger, and his wife is gradually re* coveriug.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 993, 13 March 1891, Page 23
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