DOCTOR’S TERRIBLE DEATH
GHASTLY FOOD POISONING. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Paris, July 14. Dr. Pierre Marie, of the Pasteur Institute, died of botulism, a ghastly food poisoning disease. A fortnight ago, while experimenting to find a serum antidote, a minute fragment of the toxic powder lodged in his left eye. Within two days his eyes inflamed, then his mouth and throat were paralysed, and finally his arms, shouldbrs and legs. Nourishment was meanwhile given through the nose. The victim throughout retained his intelligence intact and watched and commented on the course of the disease. Finally he asked to have his eyelids opened in order to see his nails. They are turning blue,” he managed to articulate, “then I am lost." This was on Thursday last. He later died in terrible agony.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 July 1929, Page 12
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