18-month-old baby boy bit into a closed metal tube of medicated cream containing 1% of Dibucaine, ingesting a small amount of the cream.
The baby immediately began to scream, went into convulsions, and seven hours later suffered a painful death. The baby’s family sued the cream manufacturer for defective design and failure to warn of the specific hazards and consequences of ingesting a small quantity of such hazardous cream.
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