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IH X L AND WOMEN. MEDICAL REPORT ON ITS ,ADANGERS, The third instalment of the medical report on ethyl petrol; prepared on be half of The Daily Mail by l)r. JVlyor Coplans, D.S.O.. which appears in Page 17, is of special importance to women. ; The report is based on the results of personal experiments and the valuable 1data provided by the investigations | carried out for' The Daily Mail by the. Research Association of British Motor ; and Allied Manufacturers. . : i. Points in to-day's section a r e : ; (.--That ethyl petrol is to be regarded as j particularly dangerous to women by rea i son of the ready absorption through the | skin of the lead tetra-ethyl present is to be inferred from experiments, carried out .. 'with, animals to determine this point. : II.--It should also be borne in mind that once ethyli: petrol has dried upon the J- human, skin, washing: the contaminated! surface with Kerosene;is the reverse off being dependable fo r;the purpose of re moving; the deposited lead tetra-ethyl. 111.--There is every reason for including! in Part I. of the Poisons Schedule lead) tetra-ethyl, which is obtainable by any! member of the public froin a retail t druggist without question or warning. ! ' At the express, request oi The Daily \ Mail no experiments on animals vyere carried out by Dr: Coplans during his investigations. . His references are to tests carried put by other authorities.