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Show ELIXIR WARNING ISSUEDJN UTAH The state department of agriculture agricul-ture Friday Issued a warning against a medicine reportedly having hav-ing cauaed aeveral audden deatha In the aoulh and eaat and believed to ba on aale In Utah. Information from the U. A. department de-partment of agriculture named mercial Bulletin will aay Saturday: the H. E. Masaengill company of Tenneaaee and Virginia, aa the offending of-fending medicine. A liquid, the aubatance ia offered for treatment of etreptococcua Infection and aa a reducing agent. The federal bulletin aald that the U 8. D. A. had tried to recall all storks on merrhanta' ahelvea and appealed to the Utah department to request denlera or persons In pneeeaaion of the elixir to bring It to the atate department or to deal de-al roy It. It waa pointed out that only that elixir put out by the Maaaengill firm waa dangeroua. other firma' produrta being blameleaa. An over-doae over-doae may bring audden death, ac- cording to the bulletin. Lyman Willardaon, Inapector for : the atata department, aaid ha had canvaaaed virtually every drug atora in Salt Lake City without finding any bottlea of the medicine. How- i ever. David F. Smith, head of the department, aald that there waa likelihood of the elixir either having been distributed throughout the atata to retailera tn that the company's com-pany's salesmen had marketed the product rather than wholeaale ' house, having handled It |