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Show 'ELIXIR' DEATHS INCREASE T0 13 CHICAGO, Oct It (UP) Dr. Morris Flahbeln, editor of the Journal Jour-nal of th American Medical aaao-elation, aaao-elation, announced today that known deatha from "proprietary elixir" of sulfanilamide had mounted to 11 He received a report of four deaths In Eaat St Louis, 111., and anothsr death In Tulsa, Okie., where eight deaths were reported yesterday. On other man Is dying In Eaat St Louis, Dr. Fiahbaln aald. All of th Eaat St Lou la patlenta wsr negroes and were being treated by a negro physician, ha aald. One ether patient In Tula and one In Eaat St. Louis are known to be 111 from the effect of disthyllns glycol, with which th sulfanilamide waa mixed, Flahbeln aald. He added that It waa not believed th deaths wsr caused by sulfanilamide, although al-though the A M. A. repeatedly has urged cautloa la the" us of this new drug. Sulfanilamide Itself haa given promise of controlling a, long list of serious diseases, notably streptococcus strepto-coccus Infections. While suffering from alnua trouble trou-ble at Boston recently Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., son of th president waa given sulfanilamide, but not In the form which baa caused th deaths. Flahbeln aald the "elixir" had been withdrawn by the manufacturer manufac-turer and "it la hoped there will be no further deatha." |