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Currently Dr. Massengill is circularizing his customers with a broadside, in which he declares that he did not know that the diethylene glycol part of his "elixir" might be poisonous, that he believes responsibility for the poisonings may be due to his "elixir's" other ingredient, sulfanilamide. Nevertheless, fortnight ago St. Louis pathologists working for the Food & Drug Administration definitely declared that the 73 deaths traced to Dr. Massengill's Elixir were due to diethylene glycol, not the sulfanilamide. Last week these results were confirmed by Washington University investigators. Simultaneously, Dr. Massengill began settling the damage suits which many a relict of an elixir victim has brought against him. Top price to date: $2,000.
*Technically the only solvent usable in an elixir is alcohol. On this technicality alone was the Food & Drug Administration legally able to intervene when the "elixir's" death-dealing qualities became evident.