MEDICAL CONGRESS
MOTOR EXHAUST FUMES GAS MASKS MAY COME NEW DRUG REPORTED LONDON, July 30. Sir William Decourcy Wheeler, addressing the Medical Congress, contended that pedestrians were exposed to a deadly gas attack from motor exhaust fumes and might be obliged to wear gas masks in heavy traffic. A drug with the possibility of a balm for heart troubles is claimed to have been discovered by Mr. S. Smith, a London research chemist. This is digoxin, which, has been tested successfully at the University College Hospital.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 179, 1 August 1933, Page 5
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