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USED WITH FATAL RESULTS IN U.S.A. MEDICAL ASSOCIATION’S WARNING. CHICAGO, October 19. The American Medical .Association disclosed that nine out of ten persons at Tulsa, Oklahoma, to whom was administered what was claimed to be an extremely effective remedy have died. Tl;e preparation which was used at Tulsa and which is called “Elixir Sulfanilamide,” is used principally for blood infections. There were also four other deaths elsewhere and 475 shipments of the preparation which had been sent to other parts of the country are being recalled. The association, without condemning sulfanilamide, which has been hailed by the medical world, says: “The tragic experience should be a final warning to physicians regarding the prescribing and administering of semisecret unstandardised preparations.-" FEDERAL ACTION. SEIZURE OF ALL SUPPLIES. (Received Wednesday, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, October 20. The Federal Government has ordered the seizure of all sulfanilamide throughout the country and has advised the Canadian authorities to act similarly. The deaths have reached fourteen.
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Wairarapa Age, 21 October 1937, Page 5
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