rOISONOTTS MILK AND MILK-PANICS. 



73 



Total during the ten weeks 14 

 Being at the rate of rather less than one per 100,000 per 

 week. 



A poison which does not poison you if you take it in aque- 

 ous solution, but poisons a whole township when that same 

 aqueous solution is diluted with milk a hundred or a thousand 

 fold, and whose period of incubation is sometimes two months 

 and sometimes three days, according to the exigencies of your 

 case, must be singular indeed. And when such a poison 

 seems to have ravaged a whole parish, it marks its ravages 

 most appropriately by a diminution in the death-rate. 



lUE ENS. 



