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ankles are felt for a considerable length of time. 

 From the great debility induced, it not unfre- 

 queritly happens, that cedomatons swellings of 

 the lower extremities ensue. The poison of fish 

 is always attended with much immediate danger, 

 and even when the person escapes its deadly 

 consequences, his constitution most frequently 

 receives such a severe shock, as to render it 

 necessary to visit a cold climate." 



This account of Dr. Thomas of a very distres- 

 sing train of symptoms produced by the swallow- 

 ing of poisonous fish, I believe to be perfectly 

 correct, as during my residence in the West 

 Indies, I had frequent opportunities of seeing 

 the poisonous fish which he has described, and of 

 obtaining information on their very deleterious 

 effects when received into the stomach. 



The second order of fish, which only produces 

 occasionally dangerous symptoms, are the congor 

 eel, the dolphin, the muscle, the eel, the salmon, 

 and (in particular constitutions) all the varieties 

 of the shell fish. Of these, the muscle, may be 

 considered by far the most frequently injurious; 

 and there are few persons who have not witnessed 

 in themselves, or in their friends, the bad effects 

 produced by eating this fish. 



Two interesting cases are reported in the Me- 

 dical Repository, for June, 1815, by Dr. Burrows, 

 one of the editors ; where the eating of muscles 

 laken from the foul bottom of a fishing smack ir* 



