FATAL ELIXIR
MEDICAL FINDING ASSOCIATION’S TESTS NEW YORK, Oct. 30. The American Medical Association has announced that tests have positively demonstrated that it was not sulfanilamide but diethylene glycol used with it in the so-called elixir that was responsible for the deaths.
A previous New York message stated: The American Medical Association disclosed that nine out of 10 persons at Tula, Oklahoma, to whom was administered what was claimed to be an extremely effective remedy have died. The preparation which was used at Tulsa and which is called “Elixir Sulfanilamide,” is used principally for blood infections. There were also other deaths elsewhere, the total being 14. The Federal Government ordered the seizure of all sulfanilamide throughout the country and advised the Canadian authorities to act similarly. 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 semi-secret unstandardised preparations.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 251, 22 October 1937, Page 7
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