DANGEROUS DRUGS.
CHEMISTS PETITION HOME OFFICE. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph —Coo vri ght. LONDON, April 6. Several recent deaths of girls owing, to slimming by the use of drugs of the nitrophenol group has caused wholesale chemists to petition the Home Office to place such drugs on the poison list, to be supplied only by doctor's prescription. Doctors say that, apart from the risk of death through an overdose, knowledge of the effect of these remedies is little known. Medicos use the greatest caution in prescribing them.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12616, 7 April 1934, Page 5
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88DANGEROUS DRUGS. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12616, 7 April 1934, Page 5
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