SUBTLE POISON
MYSTERIOUS PARALYSIS SEVERAL CASES IN DURBAN CAPETOWN, April 26. A subtle poison, unknown to science, is the verdict of a South African pathologist, who experimented on the cause of a disease leading to the partial paralysis of a number of residents of Durba, and of passengers and crew of a steamer which loaded at Durban.
The pathologist believes it to be a poison within the creosol group. All the victims consumed a certain commodity .which was pure on analysis. Probably, it contained an unknown poison.
The League of Nations Medical Bureau has been asked to appeal for information of any similar outbreak, so as to secure world-wide co-opera-tion.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19622, 4 May 1938, Page 5
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