MORPHINE FOR LONDON SOCIETY BABIES
Smart eociety women in lon don have had a revelation in discovering that their babies have been imbibing a new patent medicine, which is advertised as “per--fectly harmless for the most delicate infant,” but which is guarahteed to put them to sleep for nine hours at a stretch. This medicine has found its way into the most exclusive nurseries in Mayfair, having been imported by unscrupulous nurses, who either object to being awakened by their charges or want to have a “night out” when their masters and mistresses are attending some festivity, such a® a court or a late dinner party. The story is going round that Mr and Mrs Lulu Harcourt have been in the greatest state 'of anxietr because their only son and heir slept for twelve hours without a break. When he awohe he was curiously dazed, though he showed no other symptoms of having been drugged. A doctor having been called in, he diagnosed the case as the result of morphine.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6823, 20 May 1909, Page 6
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170MORPHINE FOR LONDON SOCIETY BABIES New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6823, 20 May 1909, Page 6
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