P0I80N0US FISH 1^^ 



+o Tf nffppts chiefly the heart, according to Pohl,«* and 

 r:r :ifer,v.i"pSe w,Lu l.e,.ave. UUe the ve„..,n hemo- 

 lysins in that it is acnvated by se™^ EvanV ^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^^.^^^ 



to have caused fatal intoxication m 



s::^^;^r„ra::." rz^i^^^^^- -- - 



iJ kept but ^-/;-^°|^;^_^;^'^:;;:ttle cannot be safely marketed. 

 Tr+n he developed and contained in the ovaries and eggs, and 



:; *., £r ...1 1.™. ~. aw,, ..a —"■•J":"; ;';; 



•„ +i.a «viim and leo-s- this terminates m collapse, coma, ana 

 Sr^re^resp-t'oryor eardiae paralysis. Jhe^entire eo„. 

 nf tl,e process may be but ten to twenty minutes, or it may be as many 

 lirs '^On aeeount of the localization of the poisoii in the eggs and 

 ovaries not all persons who eat the fish are poisoned, and not all who 

 are poisoneclreeeive a fatal dose. In the gastro-intestinal form the 

 sWom appear later, consist chiefly of gastro-intestmal disturbances 

 ?eZlZ. more elosely ptomain poisoning, and the prognosis is not 



"The paJhofogilf ailmy of this foi-m of poisoning has not been 

 carefully studied, but no characteristic or striking anatomical changes 

 have been noted in the bodies examined. Tahara>' has described a 



84Prager med. Wocli., 1S93 (18), 31. 



85 British Med. Jour.. 1007 (i).73. 



ssaKonstanzoff and Manoiloff. ^^ re.^'^i"; ? J-'; iSfifi Hi ;rature) 



86 "Atlas des Poissons Vencneux," St. Petersburg, 1886 (hteratine). 



STBiochem. Zeit., 1010 (30), 2.56. 



