Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1878 — A Druggist’s Fatal Mistake. [ARTICLE]

A Druggist’s Fatal Mistake.

Another case of a blundering druggist poisoning a person by putting up a wrong prescription is reported, this time in Cincinnati. A boy named Conley, 12 or 13 years of age, was under treatment for chills and fever. On Friday afternoon last the doctor left a prescription for thirty grains of sulphate of quinine, to be made up into six powders of five grains each, one to be given every hour. It was taken to Flynn’3 drug store, corner of Sixth and Lock streets, where Mr. Flynn, after reading it, repeated it to his clerk, a young man 18 years of age, and handed it to him for preparation. The clerk put up morphine, an article in appearance very much like quinine, and made up the powders. The first powder was given the patient shortly after dark, and was followed at the stated intervals by two more. The boy fell into a heavy stupor, and his parents, unable to arouse him, sent in alarm for Dr. Knox, who perceived the fatal blunder at once, and saw that the boy was already beyond recovery. He died at 6 o’clock Saturday morning.— Chicago Inter Ocean.