Article on Barney Williams

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3 January 2026

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23 Feb 1863

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Participants:  Barney Williams

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Article: New York Herald, 23 February 1863, 5.

"The profession came near losing one of its brightest ornaments last week. Mr. Barney Williams took large quantities of a medicine in which a druggist's clerk had substituted laudanum for paregoric and was only saved by the stomach pump. Mr. Williams should henceforth 'throw physic to the dogs'."