ON ANIMAL AND 



article not immediately poisonous* may be taken 

 with impunity. This observation is particularly 

 applicable to the eating of fish, and to those of 

 the shell tribe, more than any other; the effects 

 which they produce, when they disagree, bearing 

 a strong similarity to those occasioned by fish 

 that are uniformly poisonous, differing only in 

 degree. 



The symptoms of the poisonous effects of shell 

 fish are, languor, depression of spirits, nausea, 

 heartburn, vertigo, a sense of weight with great 

 pain in the region of the stomach, active cholera, 

 burning heat on the skin extending from the body 

 to the extremities, particularly in the palms of 

 the hands and soles of the feet, and most fre- 

 quently, an effloresence or eruption on the skin, 

 attended with intolerable itching. 



These symptoms, if not relieved, sometimes 

 terminate fatally, like those we have detailed as 

 produced by the eating of the scaly poisonous fish, 

 and therefore they cannot be too promptly removed. 



In the treatment in both instances, the first 

 object is to get rid of the offending matter as 

 quickly as possible. Nature, fortunately, very 

 often effects this purpose without the aid of art, 

 by bringing on very active cholera; in which she 

 is to be imitated, by remedies that will very 

 quickly clear the prima3 via?. The next indication, 

 is to arm the stomach against the operation .of 

 such portions of the fish as may not have been 



