Word: pharmacists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remembered having left a vial of "seasickness pills" on her dressing table at Bucharest. Since her forthcoming voyage to the U. S. looms as the Queen's first long sea journey, she had attached great importance to this particular vial of pills, compounded especially by a Florentine pharmacist. Soon, however, Her Majesty was reassured. Hasty telegraphing effected the despatch of the pills by airplane to Paris...
...suppose, on the other hand, that the doctor was honest, but that the pharmacist, unable to read what had been prescribed, made some fatal mistake? And who could read a rigmarole like that...
...Louis Danval, a pharmacist at Paris was convicted of poisoning his wife with arsenic, after a quarrel. Chemists had found one milligram of arsenic in the woman's body. M. Dan-val was sentenced to life imprisonment in New Caledonia. Then in 1902 Gabriel Bertrand, French chemist, announced that arsenic is habitually found in the human body. Danval appealed, was released. He appealed also for rehabilitation but the French courts refused to grant this in 1906. By 1921 new evidence was available and he again appealed. The French courts appointed a committee of experts to report. They announced that...