Citation

Macpherson RK. Med. J. Aust. 1976; 2(25-26): 929-936.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1976, Australian Medical Association, Publisher Australasian Medical Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1018675

Abstract

In the course of his treatment by a herbalist who had undertaken to cure his disability, a mildly spastic retarded four-year-old child was immersed in a heap of fermenting horse manure for 40 minutes. He was unconscious when removed and died two days later despite intensive care in a children's hospital. When medical aid was sought a false history was given and the true nature of the child's illness, heat stroke, was not determined until after death. The herbalist was subsequently convicted of manslaughter.

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