SLIMMING MENACE
BY USE OF DRUGS PLACE ON POISON LIST? By Telegraph—Copyright—Press As. LONDON, April 6. Several recent deaths of girls owing to slimming by the use of drugs of the nitrophenol group, of which the death of Miss “Biddy” Philcox, the New Zealander, is an example, have caused wholesale chemists to petition the Home Office to place such drugs on the poison list, to be supplied only by. doctor's prescription. Doctors say that apart from the risk of death through an overdose, knowledge of the effect of these remedies is little known. Medicos use the greatest caution in prescribing them.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIX, Issue 86, 7 April 1934, Page 5
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