DANGEROUS DRUG.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20632, 5 June 1935, Page 5

DANGEROUS DRUG.

Death of a Company Director. UNCONSCIOUS FOR FIVE DAYS. The dangers of the drug called dial were stressed by Mr Ingleby Oddie, the Paddington (London) coroner in recording a verdict of death by misadventure on Gerald Allen Moore, aged i° r *. y ; eight ’ a cor npany director, who died from an overdose of the drug after being unconscious for five davs says the London “ Daily Mail.” Major Moore, of Ingatestone, Essex, said that his brother lived with his sister. I do not think he suffered from sleeplessness, said Major Moore. “He wfse mn ° trouble - financially or other“My sister told me that when she round him she thought he was fast asleep.” Dr Fenton of Hyde Park Square, M-, said that he was called to see Mr Moore and found him unconscious. He found a small phial containing three tablets of dial. Mr Moore was given stimulants. Later Sir William Wilcox saw him and diagnosed that he was suffering from dial poisoning Mr Moore had taken dial previously He had a prescription from another ■l° Ct ,°a-« ,932 ’. ana had been getting it at different times since. Mr Ingleby Oddie said that it was a case of accidental death from an ; overdose of dial. . taken commonly for sleeplessness he said, “and is readily procurable from chemists. "In view of this danger. I think it would be a good thing if some re- | stnction were placed on its sale, because it is a drug of which vou do not de ,y„2P a tolerance the more you take, W hen you are getting accustomed to other drugs, the less dangerous thev become. It is not so in th<- case of dial. The more vou take the more dangerous it becomes, and as they find one tablet does not produce the effect I it used to do. patients are apt to take I more and more.”