1927

Jackson’s lobbying leads to passage of federal Caustic Act providing for poison and antidote label. His efforts followed seeing “many heartrending cases of lye burns of the esophagus in children” (Jackson, 162, 162-165). Wm. Matheson, wealthy patient activist, established Matheson Commission for the Study of Epidemic Encephalitis through his friend Wm. Darrach, Dean of Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons, which included NY Neurological Institute (Kroker, 132ff.)