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(3) Case of poisoning from eating the roe of flounder, reported by Dr. 

 Rondot (Revue sanitaire de Bordeaux, January 25, 1884). 



(4) Case of poisoning from eating preserved turkey which had become 

 spoiled, communicated by Mr. Darnet, a pharmacist of Soulac at the 

 session of the Society of Public Hygiene of Bordeaux, December 5? 

 1883 (Revue sanitaire de Bordeaux, January 10, 1884). 



(5) Poisoning by the flesh of a goose, reported by Brouardel in Hoff- 

 man's Traite de Medecine legale. 



(6) Poisoning by the spoiled flesh of a turkey, communicated to the 

 Academy of Medicine of Dublin at the session of January 18, 1884. 

 (Revue sanitaire de Bordeaux, March 10, 1884). In this connection the 

 author recalls other cases of poisoning by spoiled meat, observed by 

 Van der Corput, Klein, and Ch. Cameron. 



(7) Case of poisoning by small mussels; reported by Dr. J. Turle in 

 the Sanitary Record, January 15, 18S4. This was a case of the death 

 of a person who had eaten about a haudful of these small shell-fish, 

 bought in the Finchley market. Four hours after eating them he was 

 taken with violent attacks of colic, followed by utter prostration, and 

 death after thirt}^ hours. 



(8) Poisoning by eating snails ; reported by Dr. Dumas, of Cette, in 

 1873. Several persons who had partaken of snails were taken with 

 intestinal troubles, nervous symptoms, vertigo, headache, delirium, etc. 

 (Revue sanitaire de Bordeaux, March 10, 1884). 



(9) Poisoning by spoiled meat. This case occurred at the Bordeaux 

 fair in October, 1884, in a family of strolling actors, three of whom 

 died (Revue sanitaire de Bordeaux, October 10, 1884). 



(10) Poisoning by spoiled English preserved beef, March 26, 1881, 

 on board the English pleasure yacht Amy, in the harbor of V T illefrauche 

 This was observed and described by Berenger-Feraud in his treatise 

 Sur les accidents que provoque la morue alteree (cases of sickness caused 

 by spoiled codfish). 



(11) Poisoning by cheese, in Michigan (Revue sanitaire de Bordeaux, 

 January 25, 1885). 



(12) Poisoning by meat from a sick calf (Echo veterinaire beige; Art 

 medical de Bruselles, June, 1885, and Revue sanitaire de Bordeaux, 

 September 25, 1885). In this last-mentioned case 10 persons were pois- 

 oned, and 1 died. The man who died, and a woman, showed typhoid 

 symptoms. The others, whose cases were not so severe, were attacked 

 by headache, violent diarrhea, and intense colic for two days. The 

 patients, moreover, suffered from a very painful dysury, and the urine, 

 which flowed out drop by drop, was as black as ink. 



(13) Numerous cases of poisoning by mussels; communicated to the 

 Berliu Society of Medicine by Dr. Virchow, at its session of November 

 18, 1885. 



The cases occurred in one of the docks of Wilhelmshafen on the North 

 Sea. After two vessels had entered the dock, and after the water had 



