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Pharmacy Link

MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS – AN EXAMPLE OF POISONING THROUGH CHEMICAL SPRAYS (TREATMENT)

I recently visited the family of a farmer whom I knew through friends. It was a chance visit, and the farmer’s wife, who had heard of me and had also read some of my publications, took advantage of the opportunity to talk to me about her little daughter’s condition. She described the girl’s symptoms, and how she usually lay in her bed quite listless and apathetic, and it occurred to me immediately that this was probably some form of poisoning. The little girl had been treated with penicillin in hospital, yet her condition had deteriorated. It so happened that I knew the senior consultant of the hospital personally and would say that he is an excellent physician, but unfortunately he was looking for the pathological cause in the wrong places.

I asked the unhappy mother about the circumstances she could still remember from before her little daughter fell ill and whether she could think of any influences that might have been responsible.

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