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Show Deaths from hydrate of chloral are becoming as frequent as from kerosene explosions, and too much caution cannot can-not be observed in the use of either of these deadly agents. The new drug is an effective anodyne, but should not be used except when prescribed pre-scribed by a physician, as in certain conditions of tbe system it is sure to cause death. The latest case is that of Henry Beaeg, a young man in Brooklyn, who, tSecoming prostrated by attendance on the sick bed of his father, took a dose of the hydrate oi chloral, smaller than he had taken on previous occasions, bat it caused hif death in a few hours. Washington Star. |