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Results of Re- Vaccination in the Prussian army in 1844. 

 Of 40,661 men who were re-vaccinated, 

 32,779 had plain scars on their arms, 



5,463 



„ indistinct ones, 





2,419 



„ none at all. 





Of the 40,661 



re-vaccinated, the vaccination 







ran in its course regularly in 



21,038 





irregularly in 



79,445 





failed in 



11,671 



40,661 

 The vaccination was repeated among the 11,678, with suc- 

 cess in 2,278 cases, thus leaving only 9,400 out of the 40,661 

 in whom it was unsuccessful. 



Of the men re-vaccinated successfully, 5 got varicella, 8 

 varioloids, 1 small-pox, within the year. — Rusfs Magazine. 



Br. Sangbusch, on Fish Poison. 

 The morbid phsenomena consequent on eating unwholsome fish, 

 whether fresh, or salted, and in the earlier stages of poisonous 

 putrefaction, are, more or less lasting disturbance of the digestive 

 apparatus, and are in both cases, even where the poisoning is violent, 

 unmistakeably alike. Yet symptoms referable to other organs occur 

 according to the varying causes that may have led to the putre- 

 faction, and according to the difference in the species of the fish. 

 Dr. Sangbusch first describes the symptoms resulting from the 

 consumption of raw, salted, or putrid fish, belonging to the sturgeon 

 family. They are, oppression and feeling of tightness, with violent 

 burning, pain in the prsecordia and stomach, a few hours after 

 the fish has been eaten : feeling of corrugation and dryness in the 

 mouth, violent thirst, transitory heats, nausea, and vomiting : sharp 

 cutting pain in the abdomen, (which is at times spasmodically tense, 

 and feels hard, at others is drawn up, but feels soft, and is pain- 

 less,) obstinate constipation or alternating diarrhoea : strangury often 

 amounting to complete retention : difficulty of swallowing, in some 

 cases even total inability to swallow fluids : difficulty of respiration, 



