Medicine: Fatal Remedy

The newest and most spectacular specific to come to the aid of ailing man last week caused the deaths of at least 41 people, the disability of countless more, the probable ruin of a Southern drug manufacturer and a nation-wide scare, the like of which had not popped out of medicine cabinets since the Jamaica ginger paralyzed Southwestern swiggers in 1930.

Most victims of last week's medical catastrophe suffered from gonorrhea, some had septic sore throats. Latest remedy for those grave conditions—and a good remedy in case of scarlet fever, erysipelas, and cerebrospinal...

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