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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · May 26, 1904

L. A. S

By L. A. S.

In a recent press dispatch from Cleveland, Ohio, appeared the following:—

“Miss Nina Shepheard, the leading singer in the Congregational church of East Cleveland, took strychnine this morning, believing it to be a headache powder. The fatal mistake was made by her chum, Miss Grace Sanborn, the daughter of H. R. Sanborn, cashier of the State National Bank of this city. Miss Shepheard spent the night with Miss Sanborn at the latter’s home, and complained this morning of a severe headache. Miss Sanborn sent the servant after headache powders used by herself. The servant brought the strychnine, and it was Miss Sanborn who handed the poison to her friend. Miss Shepheard was seized with convulsions, and died an hour later. Her father and mother reached her only a few minutes before she died.”

Moral: Don’t take headache powders to cure headache. Adopt a better and safer method of relieving this common ailment. “Accidents will happen,” and although they may be rare, one such accident will last a lifetime. A knowledge of natural laws governing physical health will never suggest the necessity of sending to the drug store for some paralyzing agency with which to combat pain; but will show how to remove the cause of the trouble by coming into harmony with nature, and thus obviate the necessity of resorting to drugs, with the attendant danger of taking an overdose or a wrong dose, and a resulting funeral. An ounce of prevention is worth many pounds of such a “cure.”