Show DR SENECA POWELL DEAD AT GREENWICH Deadly Poison for Wh Which ch He Found An Antidote Proved His Undoing New York Aug 20 Dr Seneca I D. D Powel Powell whose name namo will ivill go 0 down Jn In I time the history of oC me medicine as a a mart martyr r to science lies Hes dead In his home nl nt Greenwich Conn Coon as the time result of or constant drinking of or carbolic acid for three years ears to prove pro o that pure mire alcohol is an antidote for fur the poison polson F Fl Few w is' chapters in lii the thc history of or how men have battled against disease se equal the time ono one furnished b by Dr Powell Powel He lie graduated in 1896 from tho time medical medi- medi cal school of or New Ne' Ne York university arid and ut ot once plunged into exhaustive experiments experiments ments with poisons One after another ho pondered methods of or neutralizing the time effects o of ot deadly l fluids al and d powders and amid year car after aner year car ho hue li a added to the sum total of his lila collegiate knowledge of or the dreaded liquids s ho It I as US about three years ago thai determined to find some substance that would cause carbolic acid to lose its terrors I ot of administering ad tire the poison polson to lo others he took tool somali small smal quantities quan quan- titles of it i and antl then applied various antidotes Finally he lie conceived the idea of pure puro alcohol being an antidote Promptly he sol sot to work worl He lie knew he le was risking his hlf life lre In Iii proving his the theory r but hut heroically he lie thrust aside au all Ui thought of cit o self thinking only of or orthe the he l Incalculable benefits which would oulu resu ulL I t. t lc Demonstrated ills Hi Jb Theory Dr Powell Powel went to his hll laboratory laborato antI and drank some seine carbolic acid What atI h he suffered none but himself himsel could tell tel tho the Then hen cumo cano the tho crucial moment moment when his hopes would be bc enriched en en- riched He lie drank the pure alcohol andin and andIn andIn In a n few ow moments was in his normal health Not Nol content with wih hl Iris his initial test lest he hue continued with othe others t taking larger quantities of uC the lie poison Then he ho went before medical l societies and ant classes of or students and for ot three years the accuracy acy of ot his hit theory theor But nut rebelled at al last last Tho The Thool poison ol on which ha hind had been saturating his lilt conquered and he lie began to lo full fall fal He had to lo abandon active work and andon on Saturday he lie expired lea ll leaving behind a a monument of oC gratitude in the minds I of C his fellow |