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Headaches
B.M.A. Doctors Say So
Boy Dies After Error In Hospital
DOCTORS at the British Medical Association's his death from Irritant poisoning. It conference at Aberdeen recently said that the most usual recently, causes of headaches were not physical disorders, but-
Dislike of other people; Unwanted visitors;
Loud voices;
Insulta;
"Hangovers";
Depression;
Worry, and
Isommin.
They dealt with the "Importance
INSECT powder given a Leicester City Generul Ilospital boy patient in mistake for liquorice powder caused
Vas stated ot a Leicester inquent Returning misadventure verdict Sidney Jibbett (13), of Heyly Crescent, Leicester, the Jury fareman "This case bus cast no reflec- tion on the hospital management."
Summing up, the coroner (Mr. E. G.. Fowler) said there had been negligence on the part of a nurse and a sister, but not criminal negligence.
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ask may often produce a functionaltaid; Theadache."
He catalogued the different types of headache, and added, "One of my Ipatients once explained that in ('hangover" headache was quite dit-
ferent from his ordinary one."
Nurse Irene Mory Bradfield subd that about three months ago she was Prof. G. W. Pickerint, of London,und a tin containing powder, Sh
tidying up a ward kitchen when she of headaches as an early symptom told them about his own headscher showed it to the sister in charge an of mental and nervous disorders," "If I go home with one after a tiring id Dr. Desmond Curran, Wimpole-day's work, I relax the muscles of street specialist, wald:
appears in a few minutes," he said. facial expression and the pain dis
"The head is the seat of our most | important sense organs, on whose in- |tegrity depend our mental reactions. Threats 19 our personality result in bead discomfort.
PROFESSOR RELAXES "The arrival of an unwanted visitor for the anticipation of an unpleasant
Dr. D. R. McCalman comes from Aberdeen, is Scattab. cautious and rather sceptical about this "I won- der how much Prof. - Pickering's relief is due to suggestion?". he asked.
Plane Hits Wires and Fulls
In Front of Bus
SQUADRON-LEADER E. L. MOLE, R.A.F., stationed at An-
dover, is a lucky man.
another nurse, and after tasting it they all came to the conclusion It was the medicine cupboard. liquorice powder, She placed is lu
The eight boys were each given o teaspoonful of powder from this in.
DIFFERENT TINS The coroner painted out that the Dowdler was in a cocon-tin.
Nurse BrudЛeld replied that the medicine wng in on assortment of containers.
Sister Jessle Lewis, who is in Mharge of the ward, but was on holi-, Jay the day the powder was adminis-*| ever, said that after tasting, the powder when the fin was found she old Nurse Bradfield to put a lique- eler label on it.
the
Dr. A. W. Abrumson sald powder it
It contained was consistent n appearance with liquorice,
After the boy's death he asked to tee the in gain. He was able to recover the bulk of the powder and The container, which had been thrown nway, forced
Piloting a monoplane in the Folkestone Air Trophy Race at Lympne recently, he had to make a forced landing after he had covered four miles of the 10-mile circuit. In doing so he---
Buth pilots made
Just missed the cookhouses of the wing.
Territorial camp at Dibgate: Struck high-tension cable carry-
landings,
ing 50,000 volts without break-lost his life in the neeldent, the other Sergeant Ronald Jeffries Williams
Narrowly missed the main South-cupants of his plane, Squadron
img st; ern Railway line ernimankment, der John Coresale, the pilot, and where an excursion express was Aircraftman P. Blight, escaping un
injured. partsdru
Crashed on a roadway 20 yards in front of an oncoming bus, which was able to pull up in time. There was a fish as the machine fell. It was wrecked.
Leaping from his box, the bus driver helper Squadon Leader Mole from the wreckage.
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The corner said that was done before the boy's death and there was se intention of hiding it,
Mr. Fowler aided he had seen the substances alde by side, and he him- self thought the insect powder was liquorice powder.
Old Timer Ends Argument
MANSFIELD, O. (UP).—The ex- {ecutivo committee of Richland coun- NEW ORLEANS (UP)—A_newty's fair board know now which falr wing of the Democratic Party, the this year's will be. They had made "Fearless Demnerals,”* has been quesses fruin 85 to 70. W. H. Shyock
When two R.A.F. bombers colikled | formed in New Orleans by a group settled it. It is the 71st. Shyock Is over Nottingham yesterday one of of young business men "with no pre- 181 years old and a former secretary the observers was behended by al vious political connections."
of the board for 23 years.
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