The Briny Deep

• Book ID: 104128794
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1932
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 118 KB
• Volume: 214
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(32)91425-2

✦ Synopsis

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job " and a parent's ingenuity was taxed to the limit before the offspring could be coaxed to add another one of " Life's Darkest Moments" to the juvenile calendar. Now, through the efforts of several manufacturers the taking of such correctives has been rendered quite pleasurable at least to the inherently sweet-toothed child. Too much so it might seem. The U. S. Department of Agriculture Clip Sheet No. 741 tells of a healthy Io-year-old. boy who recently ate the contents of a box of a well-known laxative tablet, mistaking them for candy. The boy's temperature rose rapidly, he became delirious, and died nine days later. Dr. F. J. Cullen of the Federal Food and Drug Administration refers to this unfortunate happening in pointing out the necessity for the user of a drug to read carefully the label. Manufacturers generally are labeling laxatives and cathartics in full compliance with the law. However, one should not relax in the matter of keeping such attractively prepared drugs out of the reach of children too young to realize their full significance.

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