Show THE TERRIBLE AGON Y DOES NOT PREVENT I ITS UsE Ko poison brings death with more maddening i mad-dening agony than ammonia but that fact does not seem to discourage the suicide The man Harrowitz who deliberately swallowed a fatal dose of the drug In New York recently is only one of the many ho have gone the ammonia route to death in spite of the excruciating pain Dr Blyth has recorded thirty cases of ammonia poisoning in the small London district of which he is health officer Professor Mitchell mentions twentytwo cases and four have occured during the short time Dr Jenkins has been connected with the coroners office In New York Cases of slow poisoning from ammonia are of constant occurrence among men who work in its manufacture or even in decomposing i decom-posing substances which give it off in considerable I con-siderable quantities Ammonia slowly and from day to day taken into tho system causes the complexion to lose Its freshness I and the skin of men who get heavily impregnated im-pregnated with It has a disagreeably blot A 1 nM ueuuuuuLuAu1cu ultauull Taken into the stomach from day to day in even the small quantities used to adulterate adulter-ate food such as baking powder it not only injures the complexion but attacks the lining of tho stomach and is the source of much general ill health The recent rapid increase in the use of ammonia for various purposes and the consequent con-sequent increase of its manufacture have made it one of the most easily obtained poisons poi-sons and althougu everybody Is familiar i with it in some form there is n surprising I amount of ignorance of its daneorous qualities quali-ties Its use as an adulterunt in any food preparation is simply a crime ana as a crime should be punished |