: “sterilised distilled water, when placed on the eye of a rabbit 
3 with chemosis, and left at the end of six days a steamy cornea 
_ with leucomata and subconjunctival ecchymosis. The animal 
_- Showed no symptoms of poisoning. Both globulin and albumose 
 tivitis. 
. General Action on the Body.—The EEE haar te 
4 the subcutaneous injections of the proteids of jequirity are those 
__ Which have been described by Drs. Warden and Waddell. 
+ The action of the globulin is not, however, quite. identical with 
4 that of the albumose. In the first place, the globalin is more 
Poisonous than the albumose. In rats, for example, 10 milli- 
grams of globulin per kilo of body-weight is a fatal dose, and 
in the same animals, 60 milligrams of albumose per | kilo of 
ody-weight. - 
If the above mentioned dose of. globulin be injected into a 
at, symptoms of poisoning begin to appear in about six hours ; 
possible to distinguish from papas” It continues in this 
external Stimuli, and with half shut eyes. It lies huddled up 
motions are passed shortly before death, which occurs in about 
twenty- four hours after inoculation. If the animal is with — 
Young, it aborts. Post-mortem, there are signs of cedema and 
punctiform ecchymosis at the seat of injection, and punctiform 
ecchymosis also beneath the peritoneum, and sometimes in the 
lungs, The intestines are congested, and sometimes greatly 
inflamed; the adenoid patches in the mucous membrane are 
Swollen, a submucous ecchymoses are often seen.. The blood 
sometimes remains fluid for a long time, and is sometimes coa- 
‘post-mortem signs are similar to those described as see 
a the bighdee , 
LEGUMINOSH.. = ——«487 
One : sintterectn of the siemens dissolved. in two minims of 
z - produced i in less than twenty-four hours’ severe conjunctivitis : 
:. therefore possess this property of producing severe Pages psa : 
the animal them seems a little languid, and ina condition im- - 
State, making no voluntary movement, irresponsive to slight , 
in its cage, the breathing becomes’ more rapid, and bloody . 
a eS 
gnlated. The symptoms of tote by the albumose andthe 
